Even the bureaucratic records have vanished.
Most of it is prosaic and bureaucratic: records of names on lists, presence at meetings, mentions in intercepted correspondence.
Importantly these bureaucratic records are new records, the systems of documentation of the moment.
At the heart of this issue of bureaucratic record-keeping is both the unsolved status of one of the most viciously contested cities on earth, and serious legal questions about the US Congress' authority to overrule the president on matters of foreign policy.
Bureaucratic records, the levers of governance, do not produce, or 'archive', collections of disinterested facts, or archives of neutral measurements.
The supposed objectivity of administrative and bureaucratic records, the instruments of governance, has brought about the dissolution of perspective and allowed an increase in 'data' to be mistaken for an increase in insight and understanding.
Bureaucratic texts record that priests bred cats specifically for this purpose, and radiographic examinations of mummies indicate that, at some temples, kittens were routinely killed — usually by having their necks snapped — and inserted into sculptures sold to pilgrims.
In addition to lingering in holding centers, hard-to-place children often endure a bureaucratic gantlet, records and interviews show.
And the inefficient, bureaucratic, state-dominated record of the Boumedienne era does not suggest he will engineer a dramatic economic turnaround.Mr Bouteflika's only hope is a decent oil price to give him breathing-space in which to see to the economy and thereby cheer up the disillusioned electorate.
Bureaucratic systems to record pupil progress and staff performance, plus a heavier burden of written marking to please Ofsted inspectors, are taking a toll on the health of the school workforce and prompting more to escape to schools in the independent sector or overseas, the survey finds.
