Comment on Performative Perp Walk
darthelmet@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoKafka wrote stories about confusing, impersonal bureaucracies. So people will describe something as Kafkaesque to convey that sense of being lost in a system.
Comment on Performative Perp Walk
darthelmet@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoKafka wrote stories about confusing, impersonal bureaucracies. So people will describe something as Kafkaesque to convey that sense of being lost in a system.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Specifically in The Trial dude was judged and persecuted by the state without anyone even explaining to him what he did.
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Because he didn’t cry at his mother’s funeral, right?
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
what
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Isn’t that the plot of that book? Maybe I’m thinking of another one.