Boxing clever?

As a reward to myself for composing a begging email for help with CADS and sending it to twenty or so unsuspecting potential authors (you know who you are), I thought I’d reward myself by posting a clumsy attempt at bricolage/image manipulation.

Weber and Bakunin punch up

Max Weber (1864-1920) was the German sociologist who first examined the nature of bureaucracy and its effects. The almost final sentences of his “Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” are a bit famous-“No one knows who will live in this cage in the future, or whether at the end of this tremendous development entirely new prophets will arise, or there will be a great rebirth of old ideas and ideals, or, if neither, mechanized petrification, embellished with a sort of convulsive self-importance. For of the last stage of this cultural development, it might well be truly said: “Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.”

Meanwhile, Micky Bakunin (1814-1876), theorist of anarchism and early critic of bureaucratised vanguards. I can imagine him not being a big fan of CADS…

CADS is a punch-up of these two guys. So be it.

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