Class of november 10th 2004: Kafka II
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Class of november 10th 2004
Kafka II
The Hunger Artist (p.268)
Ericka's presentation
fasting = creativity?
satire over satyre.
the impresarion lifting hand to heaven
the two girls as pieta figures
compulsion and maryrdom
ego, character... devotion to something outside of him
fasting is thinking about food
spectacle, audience, ungrateful, doubts him and leaves him.
what is the nature of arts
is there something noble about this art of self-degredation?
"renunciazzo"
we still rever discipline about control over the body
torture of the body
to some extent denaturing the natural functions of the body
mystical: desire to transcend the body
fashion: a fad for freak show, religious aesthetic
all today's 3 stories: about specatcle
Report To The Academy (p.250)
cage/prison through which you see or are observed
metaphore of the trapeze artist
submitting oneself voluntarily to extreme conditions that doesn't make much sense
to be civilized itself is somehow unatural, pretending to be natural
man is "the drinking animal" to the ape
commentary on being a jew within a secular/christian community, marked in front of others
jews as apes a common caricature in early 20ies
pulling down is pants to "show" is wounds: circumcision
penal colony: marked in the skin, the commandments
the penal colony: keeping the uniform
old thing passing, trying tto cling to it even if crowd have left
a spectacle of punishment
french devil island: dreyfuss affair
can a jew be a loyal citizen
zola: j'accuses
swann a jew
stories not set in time and place: unversality, contemporarity
what you do to the prisonner is "the justice"
the machine as a twisted way to have an "objective" executionner
explorer: observer, not doing any actual action to stop the machine
ideologically incapable of doing anything
complicite in passivity, possibly as barbaric
links back to the artist: writtiong meant to communicate but are so embellish that in the end the fail to communicate anything
always reminding foreigness of the explorer
a fiction of not being affected, of not taking sides
his presence does affects things
universality of HR and non-interventionism
Class of november 10th 2004
Kafka II
The Hunger Artist (p.268)
Ericka's presentation
fasting = creativity?
satire over satyre.
the impresarion lifting hand to heaven
the two girls as pieta figures
compulsion and maryrdom
ego, character... devotion to something outside of him
fasting is thinking about food
spectacle, audience, ungrateful, doubts him and leaves him.
what is the nature of arts
is there something noble about this art of self-degredation?
"renunciazzo"
we still rever discipline about control over the body
torture of the body
to some extent denaturing the natural functions of the body
mystical: desire to transcend the body
fashion: a fad for freak show, religious aesthetic
all today's 3 stories: about specatcle
Report To The Academy (p.250)
cage/prison through which you see or are observed
metaphore of the trapeze artist
submitting oneself voluntarily to extreme conditions that doesn't make much sense
to be civilized itself is somehow unatural, pretending to be natural
man is "the drinking animal" to the ape
commentary on being a jew within a secular/christian community, marked in front of others
jews as apes a common caricature in early 20ies
pulling down is pants to "show" is wounds: circumcision
penal colony: marked in the skin, the commandments
the penal colony: keeping the uniform
old thing passing, trying tto cling to it even if crowd have left
a spectacle of punishment
french devil island: dreyfuss affair
can a jew be a loyal citizen
zola: j'accuses
swann a jew
stories not set in time and place: unversality, contemporarity
what you do to the prisonner is "the justice"
the machine as a twisted way to have an "objective" executionner
explorer: observer, not doing any actual action to stop the machine
ideologically incapable of doing anything
complicite in passivity, possibly as barbaric
links back to the artist: writtiong meant to communicate but are so embellish that in the end the fail to communicate anything
always reminding foreigness of the explorer
a fiction of not being affected, of not taking sides
his presence does affects things
universality of HR and non-interventionism
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