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The Utopia Of Rules

The Utopia Of Rules

The Utopia Of Rules
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The Utopia Of Rules Paperback - 2016

by David, Graeber-,

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  • Title The Utopia Of Rules
  • Author David, Graeber-,
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Melville House Publishing
  • Publication date 2016-02-23
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 24798800
  • ISBN 9781612195186 / 1612195180
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.9 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Political
  • Category Archaeology / Anthropology
  • Dewey Decimal Code 302.35
  • Quantity available 5

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This seller has earned a 3.98 of 5 Stars rating from internet customers.
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Reviewers praise the book as an incisive exploration of bureaucracy’s paradox—how rules can both suffocate and sustain social life. They highlight vivid examples from academia, language, welfare systems, and the game/play contrast, noting a clear, provocative synthesis that makes complex ideas accessible and memorable.

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From the publisher

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

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?

To answer these questions, the anthropologist David Graeber--one of our most important and provocative thinkers--traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today, and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice...though he also suggests that there may be something perversely appealing--even romantic--about bureaucracy.

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.

An essential book for our times, The Utopia of Rules is sure to start a million conversations about the institutions that rule over us--and the better, freer world we should, perhaps, begin to imagine for ourselves.

About the author

David Graeber (1961-2020) was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. One of the original organizers of Occupy Wall Street, Graeber was also the author of Utopia of Rules and wrote widely for publications such as The Guardian, Harper's, The Baffler, The Wall Street Journal, n+1, The Nation, The Washington Post, The New Inquiry, and The New Left Review.

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