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.
Produktkennzeichnungen
ISBN-10
1612193749
ISBN-13
9781612193748
eBay Product ID (ePID)
194719451
Produkt Hauptmerkmale
Sprache
Englisch
Anzahl der Seiten
272 Seiten
Verlag
Random House Lcc Us
Autor
David Graeber
Buchtitel
The Utopia of Rules
Format
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
Zusätzliche Produkteigenschaften
Hörbuch
No
Item Length
22cm
Item Height
3cm
Item Width
14cm
Item Weight
440g
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