The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber
Published 2015 · 74,800 words · about 6 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy to read?
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy scores 57 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 58 out of 100
- Accessible, with some social-theory vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
- Conversational sentences carrying conceptual weight.
- Abstraction: 70 out of 100
- Everyday bureaucratic experience turned into a theory of the state.
- Information density: 65 out of 100
- Three long essays, each dense with argument and example.
How The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy is regarded
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy holds a literary regard score of 62 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.