"Rachel Zolf's Human Resources (Coach House Books, 2007) takes on the idea of language 'play' making language work and making that work evident in a way that's fun and funny. I have just contradicted myself, yet in attempting to 'describe' Zolf's work contradiction seems entirely appropriate.
Like an ethnographer of language usage in the corporate world, Zolf shatters dialectics of participant versus observer by pushing the language system both within and beyond capacity.
