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Escaping bureaucracy ?

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Bureaucracy overlooking

Bureaucracy prefers concentric and hierarchical identities and places because these avoid jurisdictional disputes and keep things neatly accessible. It would be a mistake, however, to assert, with some postmodern optimists, that non-concentric or non-hierarchical identities and places automatically offer resistance to those exercising control. A data base does not need to be a hierarchized list. People and places can have many keywords associated with their designations; to keep tabs on them it is not necessary that they be located in one unique file drawer. As long as a keyword is findable, that portion of my or the place's identity becomes available to the controller or the advertiser. Indeed, if my identity fragments into a list of keywords without much central unity, I may be more open to the their manipulations.