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

by David Graeber

Book Overview

David Graeber's The Utopia of Rules is an engaging, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612195180
• ISBN13: 9781612195186
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Melville House Publishing
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Is Bureaucracy Really a Utopia?

This revelatory book will change the way you think — not just about bureaucracy, though certainly that, but how you think about human life generally. Not a lite read, but a good one. Recommended.