Archives for February 2017

"Kafka's world is a world theatre. For him, man is on the stage from the very beginning." Walter Benjamin "To take upon us the mystery of things" Shakespeare (King Lear) "Leopards break into the temple and drink all the sacrificial vessels dry; it keeps happening; in the end, it can be calculated in advance and is incorporated into the ritual." Kafka (Zurau aphorisms) It is important, I think, to see the heterogeneous and often contextually isolated examples of mass culture that subvert expectations and rise to the level of something other than their stated intention, or the intention of the producers and distributors of this entertainment product. A recent example was an episode … [Read more...]