New bureaucracy makes workers their own permanent auditors

Evidence

New bureaucracy takes the form not of a specific, delimited function performed by particular workers but invades all areas of work, with the result that – as Kafka prophesied – workers become their own auditors, forced to assess their own performance. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 103

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the disciplinary self-monitoring material from A World of Strangers and the docile-body material from Mehmed Ali — interiorized surveillance. — connects to: Post-Fordist management expanded bureaucracy by making workers their own auditors — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1491; Workers in new bureaucracies become their own auditors under internalized surveillance; Managerialist bureaucracy works as intended by weakening labour and worker autonomy — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1493 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Post-Fordist management expanded bureaucracy by making workers their own auditors #corroborates (0.95) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1491
• Workers in new bureaucracies become their own auditors under internalized surveillance #corroborates (0.95)
• Modern bureaucracy reimagined citizens as regulated particles in a machine #corroborates (0.72)
• Managerialist bureaucracy works as intended by weakening labour and worker autonomy #complicates (0.70) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1493
• Audit culture makes symbolic representations of work displace actual work #expands (0.70)