Term
Bureaucracy
used in 38 texts across the archive
“The bureaucracy, then, exists in the imperative gap: in what happens between a command being issued and that command being obeyed.”
In use
“Bureaucracy is always called into being when those differences have resisted elimination, or when new, and even more egregious, differences emerge out of the wreckage of the first attempt at differencide.”
“Bureaucracy is characterized by rules designed or, perhaps more often, “evolved” through settlements of specific cases, to “rationalize” interactions and regularize the functions of the institution.”
“Discipline and disciplines are good; bureaucracy is, if not evil, then an evil.”
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