“Weber placed the birth of modern bureaucracies in the nineteenth century, and Foucault and Bourdieu placed that birth two centuries before.” says Irene Silverblatt.
"Perhaps I’m thinking of history in too much of a linear way, and maybe even the largest systemic sense." So many questions, all important and fascinating. Thank you for giving us this blog post to think about. I will only say that to answer them, in my opinion, we cannot leave aside the systemic perspective. In an archeology of bureaucratism (ah, Foucault, you died 40 years ago!) we could also find the prehistory of our current catastrophe. You may be interested in reading an author like David Graber.
"Perhaps I’m thinking of history in too much of a linear way, and maybe even the largest systemic sense." So many questions, all important and fascinating. Thank you for giving us this blog post to think about. I will only say that to answer them, in my opinion, we cannot leave aside the systemic perspective. In an archeology of bureaucratism (ah, Foucault, you died 40 years ago!) we could also find the prehistory of our current catastrophe. You may be interested in reading an author like David Graber.