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THE UTOPIA OF RULES - DAVID GRAEBER KARTONIERT ...

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.

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