ABSTRACT
The technological virtualization that is dazzling, seducing, disorienting, and even de- and re-ontologizing the reader all is, in fact, a deadening, an anaestheticization of reality and the people abilities to respond to it. Pulverized by a knowledge that is alien enough to matter and oedipalized by an authority that they cannot believe in, Kafka’s characters dramatize all manner of non-coincidence: appearance reality, experience, and meaning. The ‘public’ requires something called the public sphere which is the site where it comes into its own autonomously, and the public sphere has to be carefully co-ordinated and sculpted into shape. The organization of the public sphere is crucial precisely because it shadows and anticipates the political without immediately becoming denominationally political. Mouffe’s predictable move, a move that could be identified as both post-structuralist and post-Marxist, is to recognize the ‘constitutive outside’ as something more serious than a dialectical negation of the status quo of the public sphere.
