Mckenzie Wark: Bartleby is about a certain kind of labor: You can force people to do physical labor, but it’s very hard to get people to do mental labor. They have to be engaged. As someone who has gone to the dark side, who has been a manager for the last year, I really identify with the narrator. How the hell do you get people to do this stuff? Because, after all, it’s boring! “OK guys, we have to sit around and make a document together.” We can caffeinate them, that works.