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the bureaucratic sublime
From Alexander Provan’s review of a group of works on and by Kafka in The Nation: At the fin de siècle, the state bureaucracy already held considerable sway over people’s lives and selves, and Kafka...
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of the devil’s party: nu milton
Jonathan Bate gives us something strange to think about in his review of Campbell and Corns’s John Milton: Life, work, and thought: Campbell and Corns discover a Milton who would have been at home in...
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“the real tragedy of england” / office park socialism
The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile. (D.H. Lawrence). Perversities – inner-originated or outer, who knows –...
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mark fisher’s capitalist realism
Ah insomnia! A little worried that I’ve found the problem of my early-middle age. Anyway, was up from 4 AM this morning and decided to spend the wee small hours reading Mark Fisher’s new Capitalist...
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dfw, bureaucracy, left sexiness, etc
Excited to be writing up a review of David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King. And even more excited to be able to say that the politics of this unfinished novel are at once incredibly subtle but utterly...
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