{"product_id":"the-utopia-of-rules-on-technology-stupidity-and-the-secret-joys-of-bureaucracy","title":"The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy","description":"From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives\n\nWhere 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?\n\nTo 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.\n\nLeaping 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.\n\nAn 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1612195180\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1612195180.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Graeber, David\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41712063578170,"sku":"DBV.1612195180.G","price":9.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1612195180-0.jpg?v=1790735584","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-utopia-of-rules-on-technology-stupidity-and-the-secret-joys-of-bureaucracy","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}