The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret

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The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives Â

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?
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To answer these questions, the anthropologist David Graeberâ€”one of our most important and provocative thinkersâ€”traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today, and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even noticeâ€¦though he also suggests that there may be something perversely appealingâ€”even romanticâ€”about bureaucracy.
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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.
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An essential book for our times,Â The Utopia of RulesÂ is sure to start a million conversations about the institutions that rule over usâ€”and the better, freer world we should, perhaps, begin to imagine for ourselves.

Country	USA
Author	David Graeber
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781612193755
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Melville House
Manufacturer	Melville House
NumberOfPages	274
PublicationDate	2015-02-24
Publisher	Melville House
ReleaseDate	2015-02-24
Studio	Melville House

The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

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