Auditing is a fusion of public relations and bureaucracy

Evidence

Auditing can perhaps best be conceived of as fusion of PR and bureaucracy, because the bureaucratic data is usually intended to fulfill a promotional role: in the case of education, for example, exam results or research ratings augment (or diminish) the prestige of particular institutions. The frustration for the teacher is that it seems as if their work is increasingly aimed at impressing the big Other which is collating and consuming this ‘data’. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 102

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clean definitional claim redefining auditing as PR-bureaucracy fusion — genuinely re-frames the phenomenon.
• ADDENDUM: Relates to the reader’s article themes on work/labor structures — the promotional purpose of audit data.
• XREF: connects to: Auditing fuses public relations with bureaucracy for promotional aims — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 102; Marketisation imposed on public services breeds bureaucracy geared to producing appearances — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2211

Related

• Auditing fuses public relations with bureaucracy for promotional aims (similarity 0.92)
• Marketizing inherently unquantifiable services requires added bureaucracy (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Auditing fuses public relations with bureaucracy for promotional aims #corroborates (0.97) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 102
• Marketisation imposed on public services breeds bureaucracy geared to producing appearances #qualifies (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2211