The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork: Powers and Failure of Paperwork (Mit Press) - Hardcover

Kafka, Ben

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1935408267 ISBN 13: 9781935408260

Verlag: ZONE BOOKS, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

In The Demon of Writing, Ben Kafka offers a critical history and theory of one of the most ubiquitous, least understood forms of media: paperwork. States rely on records to tax and spend, protect and serve, discipline and punish. But time and again, this paperwork proves to be unreliable. Examining episodes that range from the story of a clerk who lost his job and then his mind in the French Revolution to an account of Roland Barthess brief stint as a university administrator, Kafka reveals the powers, the failures, and even the pleasures of paperwork. Kafka proposes a new theory of what Karl Marx called the bureaucratic medium. Moving from Marx to Freud, he argues that this theory of paperwork must include both a theory of praxis and of parapraxis.

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Ben Kafka is an Assistant Professor of Media History and Theory at New York University and a candidate at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR), a component society of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He works with adult and adolescent patients through the IPTAR Clinical Center and the NYC Free Clinic.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: ZONE BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1935408267
• ISBN 13: 9781935408260
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 182
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