ABSTRACT
Chapter Three opens the molecular line of what will be called the “failed subject” by exploring the work of Kafka. It examines the subject, suggested at the end of the previous chapter, which lives in between spaces within the institution. If there is no outside to the global asylum as proposed in the previous chapter, then the only subject that can hold force must come from within the institution. The chapter explores this subject beginning with an explication of the law in Kafka as both a molar social structure and as an immanent force of production. The question of being subject to the law as well as that which produces the law is examined as two elements of constitutive force for the subject. The figure of Karl Rossman is examined as a molecular line into Amerika/America as the penultimate model for the global asylum. His failure to ever assimilate successfully is proposed as figure of disturbance that cannot be absorbed by the institution.
