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Title:       Kafka: toward a minor literature
Date:        2022-03-14
Tags:        philosophy, box3
Link:        https://spool-five.com/box3/20220314t000000--kafka-toward-a-minor-literature__philosophy_box3/
Word Count:  587
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-p. 17-

> The second characteristic of minor literatures is that everything in
> them is po-
> litical. In major literatures, in contrast, the individual concern
> (familial, marital,
> and so on) joins with other no less individual concerns, the social
> milieu serving
> as a mere environment or a background; this is so much the case that none of
> these Oedipal intrigues are specifically indispensable or absolutely
> necessary but
> all become as one in a large space. Minor literature is completely
> different; its
> cramped space forces each individual intrigue to connect immediately
> to politics.
> The individual concern thus becomes all the more necessary, indispensable,

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>  It is literature that produces an active solidarity in spite of
> skepticism; and
> if the writer is in the margins or completely outside his or her fragile
> community, this situation allows the writer all the more the possibility to
> express another possible community and to forge the means for another
> consciousness and another sensibility; just as the dog of "Investigations"
> calls
> out in his solitude to _another science_.


-p. 18 - subjectless-

> machine thus becomes the relay for a revolutionary machine-to-come,
> not at all
> for ideological reasons but because the literary machine alone is
> determined to
> fill the conditions of a collective enunciation that is lacking
> elsewhere in this
> milieu: literature is the people's concern.3 It is certainly in these
> terms that
> Kafka sees the problem. The message doesn't refer back to an enunciating sub-
> ject who would be its cause, no more than to a subject of the statement
> (sujet
> d'enonce) who would be its effect. Undoubtedly, for a while, Kafka
> thought ac-
> cording to these traditional categories of the two subjects, the author
> and the
> hero, the narrator and the character, the dreamer and the one dreamed
> of.4 But
> he will quickly reject the role of the narrator, just as he will refuse
> an author's
> or master's literature, despite his admiration for Goethe. Josephine
> the mouse
> renounces the individual act of singing in order to melt into the
> collective enunci-
> ation of "the immense crowd of the heros of [her] people." A movement from
> the individuated animal to the pack or to a collective multiplicity
> —seven canine
> musicians. In "The Investigations of a Dog," the expressions of the solitary
> researcher tend toward the assemblagof a collective enunciation
> of the canine species even if this collectivity is no longer or not
> yet given. There
> isn't a subject; there are only collective assemblages of enunciation,
> and litera-
> ture expresses these acts insofar as they're not imposed from without
> and insofar
> as they exist only as diabolical powers to come or revolutionary forces
> to be con-
> structed. Kafka's solitude opens him up to everything going on in
> history today.
> The letter K no longer designates a narrator or a character but an assemblage
> that becomes all the more machine-like, an agent that becomes all the
> more col-
> lective because an individual is locked into it in his or her solitude
> (it is only
> in connection to a subject that something individual would be separable
> from the
> collective and would lead its own life).
> The three characteristics of minor literature are the deterritorialization
> of lan-


-p. 18 three characteristics-

> The three characteristics of minor literature are the deterritorialization
> of lan-
> guage, the connection of the individual to a political immediacy, and
> the collec-
> tive assemblage of enunciation.