“It is too much” is a typical grievance of the fashionable age. This ebook appears at how humans and associations take care of overflow - of data, intake or offerings. The essays discover the ways that notions of overflow – framed by way of extra and abundance or their implicit opposites, shortage and dearth – crop up in a few contexts similar to sociological and fiscal idea, administration consulting, purchaser reviews, and the politics of way of life. Chapters variety from experiences of overload at domestic, at paintings or on the planet of cyber details; techniques of dealing with overflow in associations resembling information organisations; and ancient comparisons. while, the place, how and for whom is overflow an issue or a blessing?
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Thus, the pompes funèbres manipulated the classes of funerals by bringing in more and more tactics and commercial tricks to their advantage. Furthermore, a substructure of increasing speculation around the range of available goods was constructed, encouraged by the variety of alliances and the competition between actors. The competition over the sphere of extra goods threatened the delicate sharing equilibrium, which promoted a positive conception of overflowing (involving caring for the burial of the destitute) and substituted for it a negative conception, which served only private interests.
On the one hand, the device of co-regulation—the system of offering prepackaged and standardized classes of funeral services—framed the public craving for social differentiation and distinctiveness in the social hierarchy. On the other hand, by adding the category of “extra goods” onto the standardized classes of funerals, the pompes funèbres invented an economic formula that supported the reconversion of profits for the destitute. This arrangement contributed to the diff usion of the model, whereby public funeral service management was delegated to private businesses.
