Re: [projectvrm] My IIW Sessions (and a homework assignment)

[Kevin Cox < >]

Here is a story for readers of The Utopia of Rules.

http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/11/16/being-greek-and-an-economist-while-greece-burns-an-intimate-account-mgsa-keynote-2013/#more-4767

Kevin

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Kaliya Identity Woman < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

On Mar 13, 2015, at 10:02 AM, Phillip Windley < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I put up a post about my proposed sessions for Internet Identity Workshop. I encourage you to do the same. 

You can read the details about my session proposals here: http://www.windley.com/archives/2015/03/sessions_i_want_to_hold_at_iiw.shtml

But I’d like to call you attention specifically to the second one because there’s an associated homework assignment you might want to complete before IIW 

Bureaucracy—This might seems like a weird topic for IIW, but I think it's relevant in some very interesting ways. What I'd really like is for some people coming to IIW to read David Graeber's The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (at least Chapter 1) before coming so we can use it as the basis for the discussion. Graeber's position is we now live in what he calls the "age of total bureaucratization." If you take that as a starting proposition, the question of what this means for the coming Internet of Things can be both fascinating and terrifying. Read the book and come prepared to discuss it!

great Idea Phil. 

I actually bought the book after seeing it in the bookstore… William then informed me you had proposed this session. 

I think it is a great idea. 

Are you also going to post this idea to the Community list? < " target="_blank"> >

The session will be much more interesting if several of us have read Graeber’s book. 

IIW is Apr 7-9 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/internet-identity-workshop-xx-20-2015a-tickets-14097972415

I hope to see you there. More, I hope to attend an interesting session that you lead. 

—phil—