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8. What Is the Future of Psychoanalysis in the Academy?

Author

Chaudhary, Zahid, primary, El Shakry, Omnia, additional, Frosh, Stephen, additional, Kafka, Ben, additional, Lane, Christopher, additional, Makari, George, additional, Parkinson, Anna M., additional, Robcis, Camille, additional, Rothberg, Michael, additional, Taylor, Barbara, additional, Walton, Jean, additional, and Zaretsky, Eli, additional

Published
2018
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16. The Demon of Writing : Powers and Failures of Paperwork

Author

Kafka, Ben and Kafka, Ben

Abstract

A history and theory of the powers, the failures, and even the pleasures of paperwork.Since the middle of the eighteenth century, political thinkers of all kinds?radical and reactionary, professional and amateur?have been complaining about ?bureaucracy.? But what, exactly, are they complaining about?In The Demon of Writing, Ben Kafka offers a critical history and theory of one of the most ubiquitous, least understood forms of media: paperwork. States rely on records to tax and spend, protect and serve, discipline and punish. But time and again, this paperwork proves to be unreliable. Examining episodes that range from the story of a clerk who lost his job and then his mind in the French Revolution to an account of Roland Barthes's brief stint as a university administrator, Kafka reveals the powers, the failures, and even the pleasures of paperwork. Many of its complexities, he argues, have been obscured by the comic-paranoid style that characterizes much of our criticism of bureaucracy. Kafka proposes a new theory of what Karl Marx called the ?bureaucratic medium.? Moving from Marx to Freud, he argues that this theory of paperwork must include both a theory of praxis and of parapraxis.

Published
2020

17. Medication and Its Discontents: A new history of psychiatric drugs

Author

Kafka, Ben

Subjects
Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs That Changed Our Minds (Nonfiction work) -- Slater, Lauren -- Book reviews, Arts, visual and performing
Abstract

BLUE DREAMS: THE SCIENCE AND THE STORY OF THE DRUGS THAT CHANGED OUR MINDS BY LAUREN SLATER NEW YORK: LITTLE, BROWN 416 PAGES $28. It's hard to say exactly when [...]

Published
2018

19. Historical wisdom

Author

Walker, William S., Healy, Gene, Eyal, Jonathan, Scott, Joan W., Aisenberg, Andrew, Connolly, Brian, Kafka, Ben, Schafer, Sylvia, and Sinha, Mrinalini

Subjects
General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

In September, Graham Allison and Niall Ferguson proposed that the next president establish a Council of Historical Advisers ('Don't Know Much About History'). The authors' call for a White House [...]

Published
2016

20. Oedipus Klex: Ben Kafka on Damion Searls's The Inkblots

Author

Kafka, Ben

Subjects
The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing (Nonfiction work) -- Searls, Damion -- Book reviews, Arts, visual and performing
Abstract

The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing, by Damion Searls. New York: Crown, 2017. 416 pages. IT'S IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZABLE: a black-and-white inkblot, symmetrical across the [...]

Published
2017

21. Braving the elements: Ben Kafka on Jussi Parikka's Geology of Media

Author

Kafka, Ben

Subjects
A Geology of Media (Nonfiction work) -- Parikka, Jussi -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Arts, visual and performing
Abstract

A Geology of Media, by Jussi Parikka. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. 224 pages. IF YOU TRULY BELIEVE in 'nonhuman agency,' then I know a bridge that wants to [...]

Published
2015

22. Analyze this: a neurologist discovers the unconscious

Author

Kafka, Ben

Subjects
Is It All in Your Head? True Stories of Imaginary Illness (Nonfiction work) -- O'Sullivan, Suzanne -- Book reviews, Arts, visual and performing
Abstract

IS IT ALL IN YOUR HEAD? TRUE STORIES OF IMAGINARY ILLNESS BY SUZANNE O'SULLIVAN NEW YORK: OTHER PRESS. 352 PAGES. $27. In 1895, two neurophysiologists issued a book-length report on [...]

Published
2017

25. Paper grip

Author

Kafka, Ben

Subjects
Franz Kafka: The Office Writings (Collection) -- Book reviews -- Corngold, Stanley -- Greenberg, Jack -- Wagner, Benno -- Patton, Eric -- Hein, Ruth, Books -- Book reviews, Arts, visual and performing
Abstract

FRANZ KAFKA: THE OFFICE WRITINGS EDITED BY STANLEY CORNGOLD, JACK GREENBERG, AND BENNO WAGNER, TRANSLATED BY ERIC PATTON WITH RUTH HEIN PRINCETON, NJ: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS. 404 PAGES. $45. A [...]

Published
2009

27. PUSHING PAPER.

Author

Kafka, Ben

Subjects
PAPERWORK (Office practice), CAPITALISM
Abstract

The article offers the author's insights regarding paperworks. The author cites the short story Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street," by Herman Melville and the book "Bouvard and Pécuchet," by Gustave Flaubert, which are considered as allegories of capitalism or creative process. He notes that the short story is the reflection of the shortage of solidarity in the paperworks sector, while the book is an example of the shortage.

Published
2011

29. LETTERS.

Author

Dikötter, Frank, Smilevski, Goce, Lieberfel, Lawrence, and Kafka, Ben

Subjects
LETTERS to the editor, ESSAYS, NAZIS
Abstract

Several letters to the editor are presented including one in response to the article "China: Worse Than You Ever Imagined," in the November 22, 2012 issue along with the response from the author of the article, another related to the article on review of the novel "Freud's Sister," by Joyce Carol Oates in the December 6, 2012 issue along with the response from the author of the article and other related to the position of director at the New York University in a previous issue.

Published
2012

33. OEDIPUS KLEX.

Author

Kafka, Ben

Subjects
*RORSCHACH Test, *NONFICTION
Published
2017

35. SMOKE SCREEN.

Author

KAFKA, BEN

Subjects
*NONFICTION
Published
2017

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