Before Adolf Eichmann: A Kafkian Analysis of the ‘Banality Of Evil’ [PDF]
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2019 Arendt’s account of Adolf Eichmann as acting only out of banal intentions remains controversial. I supplement our understanding of the “banality of evil” by demonstrating that Arendt also meant it to describe a factual social arrangement ...
Matthew Wester
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Review: "Ben Kafka, The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork, Zone Books, 2012" and "Lisa Gitelman, Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents, Duke University Press, 2014" (joint review) [PDF]
, 2014 Kafka delves into the nature of paper as enabling agent of bureaucracy – i.e. paperwork – Gitelman’s focus is on “documents” and how they were shaped by print and are now transformed by the ...
von Lunen, Alexander
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An assessment of blockchain consensus protocols for the Internet of Things [PDF]
, 2018 In a few short years the Internet of Things has become an intrinsic part of everyday life, with connected devices included in products created for homes, cars and even medical equipment.
Bellekens, Xavier +2 more
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Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how governments measure administrative burdens in citizen–state interactions. Although scholarly interest in the burden framework has grown, little is known about how states themselves track and reduce these costs. A scoping review of 38 academic and gray sources, complemented by interviews with 11 experts, identifies six ...
Pierre‐Marc Daigneault +3 more
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La arquitectura en el castillo de Kafka
Arquitecturas del Sur, 1992 • Kafka y la arquitectura de cristal. • Kafka y la arquitectura como expresión de creatividad colectiva. • Kafka y la arquitectura como cambio y continuidad. • Kafka y la arquitectura como medida. • Kafka y la arquitectura como símbolo y realidad.
María Dolores Muñoz Rebolledo
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Ante la ley y la experiencia del sentido en F. Kafka
Álabe, 2021 Me propongo en este artículo analizar la estructura y el sentido del relato breve Ante la ley de F. Kafka. No solo el autor lo consideró especialmente relevante, a juzgar por las veces que lo publicó, sino que condensa ejemplarmente su estrategia ...
Santiago Martín Arnedo
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I Am Opposed to This Procedure : How Kafka\u27s In the Penal Colony Illuminates the Current Debate About Solitary Confinement and Oversight of American Prisons [PDF]
, 2015 This is the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka\u27s In the Penal Colony. The story brilliantly imagines a gruesome killing machine at the epicenter of a mythical prison\u27s operations.
Mushlin, Michael B.
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German-language culture and the Slav stranger within [PDF]
, 2006 The aim of this article is to delineate the symbolic position of the Slavonic, and in particular the Czech, in German-language Austrian culture of the period 1890–1940. My approach will be informed by psychoanalysis.
Beasley-Murray, T.
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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
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Franz Kafka lido por Hannah Arendt: cultura, formação e política
Revista de Filosofia, 2019 De todos os literatos citados por Arendt, interessa-nos investigar suas relações com os escritos de Franz Kafka. Nosso objetivo neste texto é: (i) averiguar o impacto que a obra de Kafka exerce sobre Arendt e (ii) em que medida os problemas da cultura e ...
Daiane Eccel
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