Hmm... interesting, wasn't the Foucault about the Panopticon? Well, if my memory serves me well, then I would hesistantly surmise that perhaps the "killing machine thingimachig" is a representation of the penal colony (or even perhaps society, in a larger sense?) and that the a creaking gear in the works - a complaining proletariate (spelling?) - is all that is needed to make the whole system go to whack. Heh, what interests me more though are the implications that the "killing machine thingimachig" is society. Does Kafka mean to say that society, when as beautiful constructed as that thingimachig, is carving away at something/somebody (maybe our humanity?)? That it is only when society falls apart that we are no longer destroy ourselves? That maybe anarchy is truly the most pure state, the most harmless state for man to exist in? Perhaps in this sense, it refutes the idea of the Panopticon...
This is all just random things, don't even begin to take it seriously because I am writing it late at night after losing a tennis match (got bageled 6-0, 6-0 woohoo!) and these things are... stuff that I thought about in the shower.........

posted by Bryan Lee   [11:37 PM]

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