The Minotaur in the Labyrinthine Office: on Bureaucracy (Fisher's Ghosts, part 1)

On Page 20 of Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher wrote “With the triumph of neoliberalism, bureaucracy was supposed to have been made obsolete; a relic of an unlamented Stalinist past. Yet this is at odds with the experiences of most people working and living in late capitalism, for whom bureaucracy remains very much a part of everyday life. Instead of disappearing, bureaucracy has changed its form; and this new, decentralized form has allowed it to proliferate.” What can be done?

Fisher's Ghosts, Personal, PoliticalCameron SummersOctober 28, 2019Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, anticapitalism, agitprop, Brazil, Terry Gilliam, Margaret Hamilton, the Apollo Program, David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs, Market Stalinism, Managerial Feudalism, The Nuremberg Defense, Gilles Deleuze Comment