“Biohaus”: The Bauhaus and the Biopolitics of Global Space
TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Aron Korozs Download PDF Abstract Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, art historians and urban studies scholars have been pleading for a more nuanced analysis of the Bauhaus in order to divorce from the one-sided affirmative reading of the iconic German art school. Yet, within the prevailing heroic narrative […]
Pamuk’s Dis-Orient: Reassembling Kafka’s Castle in Snow (2002)
David Gramling Download PDF Abstract: This article analyses the circuitous relationships between Franz Kafka’s last novel The Castle and Orhan Pamuk’s 2002 Snow. Though Pamuk’s “political novel” does not mention Kafka’s hero by name, K.’s pursuit of the domain of Count Westwest in The Castle lays the rhetorical groundwork for Pamuk’s narrative about Turkish modernity […]