Revenge of the Humdrum: Bureaucracy as Profession and as a Site of Science
Bureaucracy, so often demeaned, should be understood as an embodied means for the production and deployment of knowledge.Its reputation as humdrum and rule-bound is not Uptown necessarily undeserved, yet it makes possible a variety of activities on a scale that would otherwise be out of reach.Here we survey and ponder some of its diverse forms as t