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Few American directors have been as manifestly preoccupied with the uses and abuses of the media as Orson Welles. He became instantly famous in 1938 when his radio show The [...]

This paper offers an 'analytic analysis' (that is, one that uses both the sources and methodology of the early analytic tradition in philosophy) of Kafka's Der Process. Specifically, the author [...]

Franz Kafka's personal interest in and contact with the anarchist movement have been fairly well documented, and many have pointed to affinities between his work and anarchist ideas. At the same time, a growing body of scholarship has documented the influence of anarchist politics on modernist aesthetics per se, primarily in terms of a shared resistance to representation--a project that Kafka appears not to share, or at least one he pursues in a very different way. This essay redescribes the strategies of representation found at work in novels such as The Trial and stories such as 'The Refusal' in relation to anarchism, and thereby to contribute to a better understanding both of Kafka's political engagements and his unique form of narrative realism., Will [the multitude] ... replace old masters by new ones? Let it do its own work if it wants that to be done, and confide it to representatives if it [...]

The Trial has twisted and turned very productively through generations of readers' hands, and one cannot do justice to the breadth and depth of critical inquiry that has accompanied it [...]

In his diary on July 31, 1917, Franz Kafka poses something of an epistemological puzzle. He writes, "Als Kaspar Hauser soweit aufgewacht war, dass er Menschen und Dinge um sich [...]