Author: Nancy Williams
Publisher: Phaidon
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
An award-winning, comprehensive book on the innovative uses of paper.
Paperwork
Author: Nancy Williams
Publisher: Phaidon
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
An award-winning, comprehensive book on the innovative uses of paper.
Publisher: Phaidon
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
An award-winning, comprehensive book on the innovative uses of paper.
The Demon of Writing
Author: Ben Kafka
Publisher: Zone Books
ISBN: 194213035X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Since the middle of the eighteenth century, political thinkers of all kinds — radical and reactionary, professional and amateur — have been complaining about “bureaucracy.” But what, exactly, is all this complaining about? The Demon of Writing is 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 from the story of a clerk who lost his job and then his mind in the French Revolution to Roland Barthes’s brief stint as a university administrator, the book reveals the powers, failures, and even pleasures of paperwork. Many of its complexities, the book argues, have been obscured by the comic-paranoid style that characterizes so many of our criticisms of bureaucracy. At the same time, the book outlines a new theory of what Marx called the “bureaucratic medium.” Returning first to Marx, then to Freud, The Demon of Writing argues that this theory of paperwork must be attentive to both praxis and parapraxis.
Publisher: Zone Books
ISBN: 194213035X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Since the middle of the eighteenth century, political thinkers of all kinds — radical and reactionary, professional and amateur — have been complaining about “bureaucracy.” But what, exactly, is all this complaining about? The Demon of Writing is 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 from the story of a clerk who lost his job and then his mind in the French Revolution to Roland Barthes’s brief stint as a university administrator, the book reveals the powers, failures, and even pleasures of paperwork. Many of its complexities, the book argues, have been obscured by the comic-paranoid style that characterizes so many of our criticisms of bureaucracy. At the same time, the book outlines a new theory of what Marx called the “bureaucratic medium.” Returning first to Marx, then to Freud, The Demon of Writing argues that this theory of paperwork must be attentive to both praxis and parapraxis.
Paperwork
Author: Kevin McLaughlin
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812202775
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
"The Paper Age" is the phrase coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1837 to describe the monetary and literary inflation of the French Revolution—an age of mass-produced "Bank-paper" and "Book-paper." Carlyle's phrase is suggestive because it points to the particular substance—paper—that provides the basis for reflection on the mass media in much popular fiction appearing around the time of his historical essay. Rather than becoming a metaphor, however, paper in some of this fiction seems to display the more complex and elusive character of what Walter Benjamin evocatively calls "the decline of the aura." The critical perspective elaborated by Benjamin serves as the point of departure for the readings of paper proposed in Paperwork. Kevin McLaughlin argues for a literary-critical approach to the impact of the mass media on literature through a series of detailed interpretations of paper in fiction by Poe, Stevenson, Melville, Dickens, and Hardy. In this fiction, he argues, paper dramatizes the "withdrawal," as Benjamin puts it, of the "here and now" of the traditional work of art into the dispersing or distracting movement of the mass media. Paperwork seeks to challenge traditional concepts of medium and message that continue to inform studies of print culture and the mass media especially in the wake of industrialized production in the early nineteenth century. It breaks new ground in the exploration of the difference between mass culture and literature and will appeal to cultural historians and literary critics alike.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812202775
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
"The Paper Age" is the phrase coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1837 to describe the monetary and literary inflation of the French Revolution—an age of mass-produced "Bank-paper" and "Book-paper." Carlyle's phrase is suggestive because it points to the particular substance—paper—that provides the basis for reflection on the mass media in much popular fiction appearing around the time of his historical essay. Rather than becoming a metaphor, however, paper in some of this fiction seems to display the more complex and elusive character of what Walter Benjamin evocatively calls "the decline of the aura." The critical perspective elaborated by Benjamin serves as the point of departure for the readings of paper proposed in Paperwork. Kevin McLaughlin argues for a literary-critical approach to the impact of the mass media on literature through a series of detailed interpretations of paper in fiction by Poe, Stevenson, Melville, Dickens, and Hardy. In this fiction, he argues, paper dramatizes the "withdrawal," as Benjamin puts it, of the "here and now" of the traditional work of art into the dispersing or distracting movement of the mass media. Paperwork seeks to challenge traditional concepts of medium and message that continue to inform studies of print culture and the mass media especially in the wake of industrialized production in the early nineteenth century. It breaks new ground in the exploration of the difference between mass culture and literature and will appeal to cultural historians and literary critics alike.
Federal Paperwork Requirements
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Government Regulation and Paperwork
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government paperwork
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government paperwork
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
More Paperwork
Author: Nancy Williams
Publisher: Phaidon
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
A comprehensive book on the amazing verstility of paper.
Publisher: Phaidon
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
A comprehensive book on the amazing verstility of paper.
Federal Government Paperwork
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Census and Statistics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government paperwork
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Reviews impact of Federal paperwork requirements on business and the general population.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government paperwork
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Reviews impact of Federal paperwork requirements on business and the general population.
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legislation and National Security Subcommittee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government paperwork
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government paperwork
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Reauthorization of the Paperwork Reduction Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Government Information and Regulation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Small Business Paperwork Reduction Act Amendments of 1999
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government paperwork
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government paperwork
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Paperwork Review and Limitation Act of 1976
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Oversight Procedures
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Office practice in government
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Office practice in government
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description