The demon of writing : powers and failures of paperwork / Ben Kafka.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:New York : Zone Books, [2012]تاريخ حقوق النشر: ©2012وصف:182 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781935408260 (alk. paper)
- 1935408267 (alk. paper)
- JF1521 .K34 2012
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | JF1521 .K34 2012 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010011141563 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | JF1521 .K34 2012 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010011141564 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-177) and index.
Ben Kafka offers a critical history and theory of one of the most ubiquitous, least understood forms of media: paperwork.
Introduction -- The Psychic Life of Paperwork -- I. The Disciplined State -- "The National Assembly Doesn't Give a Damn" -- "Shareholders in the Great Social Enterprise" -- The Disciplined State -- "A Stranger to Everything Happening" -- II. The Demon of Writing -- "The Demon of Writing" -- "The Physical Impossibility of Doing Otherwise" -- "Tiresome Details," "Barbarous Concision" -- "As Simple as It Was Bizarre" -- Matter, Form, and Power -- III. The State of Want -- Writing and Indifference -- "Women and White Paper" -- Is Tocqueville Kidding? -- A Bitter Joke -- IV. The Bureaucratic Medium -- The Case of Inspector, von Zuccalmaglio -- Smashing -- Mistakes Are Made -- Withdrawal Slip -- From the Desk of Roland Barthes -- Conclusion -- The Wish-Utensil -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.