“All Power to the Imagination!”: A Leftist Critique of Bureaucratic Violence,Technologies and RationalityBook Review: Graeber D. 2015. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity,and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy. New York: Melville House
“All Power to the Imagination!”: A Leftist Critique of Bureaucratic Violence,Technologies and RationalityBook Review: Graeber D. 2015. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity,and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy. New York: Melville House
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“想象力的全部力量！”：对官僚暴力、技术和理性的左派批判书评：Graeber D. 2015。规则的乌托邦：论技术、愚蠢和官僚主义的秘密乐趣纽约：梅尔维尔之家。
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大卫·格雷伯在《规则的乌托邦》的序言中指出，他的书并不试图建立一种新的理论方法来研究官僚制，而是一本论文集，重点讨论了官僚制的三个特征：暴力、技术和理性。然而，官僚制的基石似乎依赖于创造力和想象力的意外和预期效果，无论是与政府官员的工作和主权的起源，力场和当代科学发展，还是超级英雄和漫画历史有关。格雷伯不仅说明了为什么我们的生活是围绕着填写表格组织起来的（第44页），而且通过对官僚做法和技术的人类学理解，给了它更广泛的范围。有趣的是，他从来没有给官僚主义到底是什么以及我们在哪里可以找到官僚主义下过精确的定义，但在幻灭的现代性和现代资本主义经济中，官僚主义似乎无处不在。本书分为四个主题部分：第一部分是结构性暴力和官僚机构的故意愚蠢;第二部分质疑科学发展，并声称我们已经从诗意转向官僚技术;第三部分是理性和游戏性及其与人性的关系;第四部分是理性和游戏性及其与人性的关系。最后一个（在附录中）考虑了创造力和暴力之间的联系以及官僚主义在其中的作用。
In the preface to The Utopia of Rules, David Graeber states that his book does not attempt to build up a new theoretical approach to bureaucracy but it is rather an essay collection with a focus on three bureaucratic features: violence, technology and rationality. However, the cornerstone of bureaucracy seems to rest on both unexpected and anticipated effects of creativity and imagination, whether related to the work of government officials and origins of sovereignty, force fields and contemporary science development, or superheroes and comic book history. Graeber not only illustrates why our life has been organized around filling out forms (p. 44), but gives it a wider scale through an anthropological understanding of bureaucratic practices and technologies. The interesting thing is that he never gives a precise definition of what bureaucracy really is and where we can find it, but in the disenchanted modernity and modern capitalist economy it seems to be omnipresent. The book is divided into four thematic parts: the first is the structural violence and deliberate stupidity of bureaucratic institutions; the second questions scientific development and claims that we have moved from poetic to bureaucratic technologies; the third one is rationality and playfulness and their relation to human nature; and the last one (in an Appendix) considers the link between creativity and violence and the role of bureaucracy in it.