the office of control
The Office of Control explores Speculative Bureaucracy: the materials and processes enabling authoritarian systems.
Upcoming release:
Speculative Bureaucracy: Models of Coercion
Statement of intent:
The Office of Control examines the materials and processes enabling authoritarian systems. Working through plans, diagrams, institutional artifacts, and media, the practice reveals how seemingly banal mechanics of architecture, bureaucracy, and process transform into instruments of coercion, surveillance, and social ordering.