jballs@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoPerformative Perp Walksh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square187fedilinkarrow-up11.94K
arrow-up11.94KimagePerformative Perp Walksh.itjust.worksjballs@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square187fedilink
minus-squaredarthelmet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·1 month agoKafka wrote stories about confusing, impersonal bureaucracies. So people will describe something as Kafkaesque to convey that sense of being lost in a system.
minus-squareandrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month agoSpecifically in The Trial dude was judged and persecuted by the state without anyone even explaining to him what he did.
Kafka wrote stories about confusing, impersonal bureaucracies. So people will describe something as Kafkaesque to convey that sense of being lost in a system.
Specifically in The Trial dude was judged and persecuted by the state without anyone even explaining to him what he did.