Likely Fictional Texts

Kafka’s impenetrable and faceless bureaucracies, under which his protagonist K. perilously suffers, may prophetically point to online falsities veiled as ostensible so-called reality i.e. the internet — from Hong Kong/Nigerian scam letters, to rogue bank email notifications obliquely requesting passwords and PINs, to spam bots chatting us up in illegitimate pop-up windows. For anyone who’s gotten a traffic ticket or been called for jury duty, you know there’s a building of dense administrators paid by the state working against you, the single focal point of their collective obsession. What is human, an agency, and of human agency, is becoming less and less distinguishable. Feel free to freak out now, and throw your phone into the river.