Franz Kafka: the ghosts in the machine

Part 1. Kafka's stories: Zarathustra on Laurentian Hill: Quetelet, Nietzsche, and Mach ("Description of a struggle")

The birth of writing from suicide statistics ("The judgment")

Ways of looking at a vermin (The metamorphosis)

The punch card and the poet's body ("In the penal colony")

Kafka and the philosophy of music; or, "Des Kommas Fehl hilft" ("Researches of a dog")

The ministry of writing (The castle)

Part 2. Kafka's person, Kafka's world: Kafka and sex

Kafka (with Nietzsche) as neo-gnostic thinkers

The calm of writing: Kafka's poetics of accident

Dissenting discourses: "I am not competent to decide that".