Intimate Bureaucracies

Intimate Bureaucracies is a history from the futurelooking backward at the present moment as a turning point. Our systems of organization and control appear unsustainable and brutal, and we are feeling around in the dark for alternatives. Using experiments in social organization in downtown New York...

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Corporate Author: Project Muse, distributor (distributor)
Other Authors: Saper, Craig J., author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2012
Baltimore, Maryland : 2020
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423245506719
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Summary:Intimate Bureaucracies is a history from the futurelooking backward at the present moment as a turning point. Our systems of organization and control appear unsustainable and brutal, and we are feeling around in the dark for alternatives. Using experiments in social organization in downtown New York City, and other models of potential alternative social organizations, this manifesto makes a call to action to study and build sociopoetic systems. One alternative system, the Occupy movement, suggests lessons beyond the specific historical moment, demands, and goals. This manifesto suggests that the organization and communication systems of Occupying encampments represent important necessities, models, goals, and demands, as well as an intimate bureaucracy that is a paradoxical mix of artisanal production, mass-distribution techniques, and a belief in the democratizing potential of social media.
Item Description:DJ Readies is a psuedonym for Craig J. Saper.
Physical Description:1 online resource (60 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s)
Also available in print form
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [53]-57) and index.