Noting the History of the Paper Trail - NYTimes.com

Scholars “have always looked through documents,” said Ben Kafka, a
historian at N.Y.U. and the author of “The Demon of Writing: Powers and
Failures of Paperwork,” recently published by Zone Books. “More and more
they are also looking at them.”
If paperwork studies have an unofficial standard-bearer and theoretician,
it’s Mr. Kafka. In “The Demon of Writing” he lays out a concise if
eccentric intellectual history of people’s relationship with the paperwork
that governs (and gums up) so many aspects of modern life. The rise of
modern bureaucracy is a well-established topic in sociology and political
science, where it is often related as a tale of increasing order and
rationality.


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