Kafka: the poet of black and white Black as music; Black as sexuality; Black as value; Black as language; Methods for assembling black and white; The absence of red

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Kafka: the poet of black and white Black as music; Black as sexuality; Black as value; Black as language; Methods for assembling black and white; The absence of red

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ABSTRACT

In a one-dimensional, rationalized world, the sign seems to reiterate the familiar. Relieved of its capacity to point to tensions and potentialities, the sign is reduced to a mere signifier of what is the case.