bureaucratisation (and categorisation, with which it is so closely related) is an instrument of power.
If you think otherwise consider the sense of powerlessness one has whilst dealing with a beauracracy.
The connection is clear in the example of being shuffled from department to department (each an actualised or personifiied abstraction/category) by bureaucrats who lack an effective 'global' or 'communal' understanding of the relevant systems and processes.
