A máquina-toca: micropolíticas da resistência em Franz Kafka

Abstract

The text intends to present the discussion on modern surveillance and control through the novel The Burrow by Franz Kafka from the theoretical perspectives of Zygmunt Bauman, David Lyon and Didier Bigo. The monograph is divided into three chapters: initially there is a section aimed at situating Kafka's literature and its possible personal and social influences, which gives him an own style of writing, supported by dialogues with Modesto Carone, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Once the novel and Kafka's writing are presented, the intention is, from the plot, to extract a sociological issue: surveillance and control and its sociotechnical movements in the body of the animal (the protagonist's aesthetic figure in the novel) and in its architectural construction (a burrow). Consequently, the monograph has a third section dedicated to discuss micropolitics of resistance with a form in becoming-animal and becoming-enemy in order to think about aesthetic-political means of confronting technopolitics, based on the philosophers Deleuze and Guattari. The objective is, thus, to visualize the power of Kafka's literature around its possibilities of analysis, discussion and agencements. Therefore, it was chosen to relate literature and society to a sociological issue, and then to think about policies of resistance to surveillance and social control: a future to come in becoming-animal.