It’s summer, long days for reading cool books.
(If you’re reading theory, maybe also hit us up with a cool quote you’ve read lately if there’s something poetic that sticks out!)
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Just finished David Graeber’s Utopia Of Rules and while it is only a collection of essays. Some of it comes across as extremely utopian. Ostensibly it’s about bureaucracies but it presupposes that bureaucratic processes are bad and inefficient. If you like Graeber (and I generally do) I wouldn’t recommend it.
that was both the first graeber i read and still a favorite. his critique of bureaucracy is definitely limited, but he also introduced me to a feminist critique of the monopoly on violence in the first essay, and his notion that the inefficiencies of capitalism greatly mitigate scientific progress is valid. (although the physicist he cites in this essay, jonathan katz, is an extreme racist and imperialist.)