Utopia of Rules

What is the source of our desire for endless rules, regulations, procedures and bureaucracy? How did it happen that even in the internet age, we can't handle filling out forms? Or is this the source of the phenomenon called state violence?

While anthropologist, thinker and activist David Graeber searches for answers to these questions, he examines the uncanny and surprising types of relationships driven by today's bureaucracy and reveals how they shape our lives without us realizing it. However, by making a rather risky claim, he also examines the idea that there may be a perversely attractive and even romantic element in bureaucracy.

Addressing many current issues, from the rise of right-wing economic politics to the response that heroes such as Sherlock Holmes and Batman find in our inner world, Utopia of Rules is a powerful work of social theory that continues the tradition of Foucault and Marx. However, he is just as good as Çi?ek with his striking and intelligent analyzes of popular culture.

Utopia of Rules, which deals with the most fundamental problems of our age in search of dreaming of a better, freer life, initiates a serious questioning of the institutions and institutions to which we submit under the implicit threat of violence, in today's world where we are crushed under the heap of official documents.

"David Graeber is a brilliant and highly original political thinker."
-Rebecca SolnIt-

"A subtle, lively, reverse attack against capitalism's love affair with bureaucracy."
-Cory Doctorow, BoIngBoIng-
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 256

Year of Printing: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Everest Publications

Prepared by: Cem Alpan
Cover Design: Emir Tali

First Print Year: 2016

Number of Pages: 256

Language Turkish