Bureaucratic Hatchery
The Tintenbad der Neusetzung occupies a converted cistern beneath the district that bears its name, its vaulted brick ceiling sweating a perpetual black condensation that drips back into the great brass vats below. Thirty-seven Bottich stand in concentric rings around a central filtration font, each one a man-high cylinder of hammered copper banded with iron, filled not with water but with a suspension of distilled ink and the macerated handwriting of departed officials — memoirs, marginalia, la...
Located in State Pathography: Legibility as Biopolitical Metabolism.