Paperwork

Paperwork
Author: Nancy Williams
Publisher: Phaidon
Total Pages: 174
Release: 1995-09-21
Genre: Art
ISBN:

An award-winning, comprehensive book on the innovative uses of paper.

The Demon of Writing

The Demon of Writing
Author: Ben Kafka
Publisher: Zone Books
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2020-04-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 194213035X

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.

More Paperwork

More Paperwork
Author: Nancy Williams
Publisher: Phaidon
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2005-07
Genre: Design
ISBN:

A comprehensive book on the amazing verstility of paper.

Federal Paperwork Requirements

Federal Paperwork Requirements
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Government Regulation and Paperwork
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1979
Genre: Government paperwork
ISBN:

Paperwork

Paperwork
Author: Kevin McLaughlin
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2011-06-03
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0812202775

"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 Government Paperwork

Federal Government Paperwork
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Census and Statistics
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1966
Genre: Government paperwork
ISBN:

Reviews impact of Federal paperwork requirements on business and the general population.

A Companion to the History of the Book

A Companion to the History of the Book
Author: Simon Eliot
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 617
Release: 2009-03-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 140519278X

A COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK A COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK Edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose “As a stimulating overview of the multidimensional present state of the field, the Companion has no peer.” Choice “If you want to understand how cultures come into being, endure, and change, then you need to come to terms with the rich and often surprising history Of the book ... Eliot and Rose have done a fine job. Their volume can be heartily recommended. “ Adrian Johns, Technology and Culture From the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the emergence of the electronic text, this Companion provides a continuous and coherent account of the history of the book. A team of expert contributors draws on the latest research in order to offer a cogent, transcontinental narrative. Many of them use illustrative examples and case studies of well-known texts, conveying the excitement surrounding this rapidly developing field. The Companion is organized around four distinct approaches to the history of the book. First, it introduces the variety of methods used by book historians and allied specialists, from the long-established discipline of bibliography to newer IT-based approaches. Next, it provides a broad chronological survey of the forms and content of texts. The third section situates the book in the context of text culture as a whole, while the final section addresses broader issues, such as literacy, copyright, and the future of the book. Contributors to this volume: Michael Albin, Martin Andrews, Rob Banham, Megan L Benton, Michelle P. Brown, Marie-Frangoise Cachin, Hortensia Calvo, Charles Chadwyck-Healey, M. T. Clanchy, Stephen Colclough, Patricia Crain, J. S. Edgren, Simon Eliot, John Feather, David Finkelstein, David Greetham, Robert A. Gross, Deana Heath, Lotte Hellinga, T. H. Howard-Hill, Peter Kornicki, Beth Luey, Paul Luna, Russell L. Martin Ill, Jean-Yves Mollier, Angus Phillips, Eleanor Robson, Cornelia Roemer, Jonathan Rose, Emile G. L Schrijver, David J. Shaw, Graham Shaw, Claire Squires, Rietje van Vliet, James Wald, Rowan Watson, Alexis Weedon, Adriaan van der Weel, Wayne A. Wiegand, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén.

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legislation and National Security Subcommittee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1980
Genre: Government information
ISBN: