The Utopia of Rules
Title | The Utopia of Rules PDF eBook |
Author | David Graeber |
Publisher | Melville House |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2015-02-24 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1612193757 |
From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence? To answer these questions, the anthropologist David Graeber—one of our most important and provocative thinkers—traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today, and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice…though he also suggests that there may be something perversely appealing—even romantic—about bureaucracy. Leaping from the ascendance of right-wing economics to the hidden meanings behind Sherlock Holmes and Batman, The Utopia of Rules is at once a powerful work of social theory in the tradition of Foucault and Marx, and an entertaining reckoning with popular culture that calls to mind Slavoj Zizek at his most accessible. An essential book for our times, The Utopia of Rules is sure to start a million conversations about the institutions that rule over us—and the better, freer world we should, perhaps, begin to imagine for ourselves.
Rule of Experts
Title | Rule of Experts PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Mitchell |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 2002-11-18 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780520232624 |
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Access Rules
Title | Access Rules PDF eBook |
Author | Viktor Mayer-Schönberger |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2022-04-26 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0520387732 |
The power of information -- Data alchemy -- Schumpeter's nightmare -- Data capitalism -- Might and machines -- Access rules -- Open data reloaded -- The end of data colonialism.
Smart Technologies and the End(s) of Law
Title | Smart Technologies and the End(s) of Law PDF eBook |
Author | Mireille Hildebrandt |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2015-02-27 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1849808775 |
This timely book tells the story of the smart technologies that reconstruct our world, by provoking their most salient functionality: the prediction and preemption of our day-to-day activities, preferences, health and credit risks, criminal intent and
Technologies of Government
Title | Technologies of Government PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Baez |
Publisher | IAP |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2014-09-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1623967945 |
In this book, Baez examines a series of governmental “technologies” that he believes strongly characterize our present. The technologies that he addresses in this book are information, statistics, databases, economy, and accountability. He offers arguments about the role these technologies play in contemporary politics. Specifically, Baez analyzes these technologies in terms of (the sometimes oppositional) rationalities for rendering reality thinkable, and, consequently, governable. These technologies bear on the field of education, but also exceed it. So, while issues in education frame many of the arguments in this book, the book’s also has usefulness to those outside of field of education. Specifically, Baez concludes that the governmental technologies listed above all are coopted by neoliberal rationalities rendering our lives thinkable and governable through an array of devices for the management of risk, using the model of the economy, and heavily investing in the uses of information, statistics, databases, and oversight mechanisms associated with accountability. Baez leaves readers with more questions than they might have had prior to reading the book, so that they may re-imagine their own present and future and thus their own forms of self-government.
Blockchain Democracy
Title | Blockchain Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | William Magnuson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2020-02-27 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108482368 |
Exploring blockchain and bitcoin, Magnuson shows how the technology rife with crime and speculation also offers innovation and hope.
Law 3.0
Title | Law 3.0 PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Brownsword |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 173 |
Release | 2020-05-27 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 1000081605 |
Putting technology front and centre in our thinking about law, this book introduces Law 3.0: the future of the legal landscape. Technology not only disrupts the traditional idea of what it is ‘to think like a lawyer,’ as per Law 1.0; it presents major challenges to regulators who are reasoning in a Law 2.0 mode. As this book demonstrates, the latest developments in technology offer regulators the possibility of employing a technical fix rather than just relying on rules – thus, we are introducing Law 3.0. Law 3.0 represents, so to speak, the state we are in and the conversation that we now need to have, and this book identifies some of the key points for discussion in that conversation. Thinking like a lawyer might continue to be associated with Law 1.0, but from 2020 onward, Law 3.0 is the conversation that we all need to join. And, as this book argues, law and the evolution of legal reasoning cannot be adequately understood unless we grasp the significance of technology in shaping both legal doctrine and our regulatory thinking. This is a book for those studying, or about to study, law – as well as others with interests in the legal, political, and social impact of technology.