" Jones was quick to respond, calling the company's move "Kafkaesque.
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But the literature in the local precincts is downright Kafkaesque.
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In the lab, biological, metaphorical, and even slightly Kafkaesque vocabularies conflate.
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My editor at VICE described it as Kafkaesque, and I agree.
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"You will see how Kafkaesque this whole trial is," she said.
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"The whole affair is Kafkaesque," Mr. Bukovsky said in an interview.
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And for many, getting connected remains a Kafkaesque and comically-expensive affair.
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You could call the conceits Kafkaesque, if Gogol weren't the better writer.
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Maybe another runaround in what had turned into a laughably Kafkaesque experience.
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"Once you call this Kafkaesque, you can't really call anything else Kafkaesque, because there's nothing else remotely like this," said David R. Dow of the University of Houston Law Center, one of the lawyers who represented Mr. Hartfield on appeal.
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This story takes place within the Kafkaesque environment that was the Chinese building boom.
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But it soon turns into a bizarre Kafkaesque story about crime, eternity, and philosophy.
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Mr. Fittipaldi described the trial as "Kafkaesque," but said its conclusion had been positive.
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He would use bureaucratic jargon known only to someone inside Russia's Kafkaesque legal system.
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Surveillance is "Orwellian when accurate, Kafkaesque when inaccurate," Privacy International's Frederike Kaltheuner told me.
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With the judiciary scared and depleted by purges, such Kafkaesque outcomes are becoming increasingly common.
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Then she had to navigate a Kafkaesque maze of bureaucracy from the Building & Safety Department.
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Many use the word "Kafkaesque" to describe strange and nightmarish situations embedded in everyday life.
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Most of the comedy comes courtesy of the Kafkaesque machinations of the divorce industrial complex.
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Looking at the sorry state Coventry now find themselves in, the whole thing seems remarkably Kafkaesque.
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That kind of faster paced iteration is really hard to do in an enormous Kafkaesque bureaucracy.
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In each instance, the Dreamers were subsequently sucked into the Kafkaesque immigration detention and court systems.
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The Kafkaesque details of Fayadh's legal tribulations paint a grim picture of the Saudi justice system.
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" And, he said, "a Kafkaesque journey for a group of innocent Americans comes to an end.
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But the city's investigative process itself can be Kafkaesque: Investigations can be prompted by anonymous complaints.
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Yet the Kafkaesque surreality that the play seems to demand is largely missing from this staging.
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When groups do realize potential evidence has been erased, recovering it can be a kafkaesque ordeal.
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Aspiring travellers in Communist-ruled China had to run this Kafkaesque obstacle course until the early 1990s.
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"Even the trial of Kafka wasn't as Kafkaesque" as Mr. Puigdemont's drive for independence, she told lawmakers.
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Things would get even more Kafkaesque in states with few clinics and mandatory counseling and waiting periods.
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Critics worry that a standardized world is dull and mediocre, a nightmare of conformity and Kafkaesque bureaucracy.
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It was a testament to her courage and dignity amid Kafkaesque injustice, something I still admire in Manning.
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In a health care system that is already difficult to navigate, some patients describe Kafkaesque quests for tests.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the director's recent Kafkaesque experiences, "Decameron" is most interested in exploring existential states of confinement.
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His allies talk nervously about a Kafkaesque situation where Kenya keeps holding elections that are repeatedly rejected in court.
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We have waited since 2012 for somebody to understand our problems, the Kafkaesque nightmare in which we find ourselves.
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The accused find themselves trapped in a Kafkaesque net, where every action and every answer merely confirm their status.
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The Kafkaesque National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS) tracks over 22019 million loans with 1980s-era green screen technology.
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Peter Kuper is an alternative comics artist and illustrator whose recent book, "Kafkaesque," interpreted 14 of Franz Kafka's stories.
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It is about race in America, the Kafkaesque crevices of the criminal justice system, love, freedom, commitment and truth.
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Several writers' names have become adjectivized — Kafkaesque, Orwellian, Dickensian — but these are designators of mood, of situation, of civic decay.
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After their detention the Garratts found themselves caught in China's Kafkaesque justice system, interrogated regularly but with nothing to confess.
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After their detention, the Garratts found themselves caught in China's Kafkaesque justice system, interrogated regularly but with nothing to confess.
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Democratic strategist Jennifer Holdsworth called a recent report that the Trump administration tracked reporters and activists "Kafkaesque" Thursday on Hill.
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There are also several simple actions that could catalyze action to rescue Pichugin from his Kafkaesque nightmare, as a start.
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Since March, the opposition has been pushing for a recall referendum against President Maduro through a Kafkaesque series of requirements.
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Though the film, well-crafted by cinematographer Robbie Ryan, is bleak, Loach adds touches of humour to often Kafkaesque situations.
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His protagonists are often pitted against overwhelming bureaucracies, inhabiting a nightmarish world that was the model for the term "Kafkaesque".
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It all sounds pretty Kafkaesque, and it's hard to see why the Pentagon thinks this system is a good idea.
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There is something absurdly Kafkaesque about these trials; they've become crucibles that show the country where black America truly stands.
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A courthouse designed to convey equal justice under the law and transparency might be preferred over one that looks Kafkaesque.
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Obviously Kafkaesque, dystopic visions of the future lend themselves well to people living under Communism in the '70s and '80s.
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Bar and restaurant owners are used to working through a tangle of regulations, but liquor licensing may be the most Kafkaesque.
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With Turkey's judiciary depleted and intimidated by waves of purges orchestrated by Mr Erdogan's government, such Kafkaesque outcomes are increasingly common.
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A lack of paperwork and haphazard legal proceedings have plunged many of those attempting to prove citizenship into a Kafkaesque nightmare.
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The problem is, while student debt is ridiculous in a Kafkaesque sense, it's not ridiculous in the sense that it's nonsensical.
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And as for the hero's Kafkaesque name, K—wasn't that what Tommy Lee Jones's character was called in "Men in Black" (1997)?
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But the system still raises the same concerns as YouTube's copyright infringement apparatus, which has been criticized as imprecise, overzealous, and kafkaesque.
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Her writing came to be defined by Fluxus, a hybrid poetry-criticism that made Kafkaesque diversions into absurdities, absolutions, and non-sequiturs.
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One of the best ways to overcome the daily boredom and bureaucratic limbo of life in this Kafkaesque camp is to create.
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Instead, I find myself enmeshed in a Kafkaesque process that aggravates my cancer and robs me of the time I have left.
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Mingling English, Malayalam and Arabic in a series of Kafkaesque parables, Unnikrishnan's book features a lot of action and even some humor.
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The factory has come under immense scrutiny these past two years for remaining in a perpetual and chaotic state of Kafkaesque mismanagement.
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In the Kafkaesque view beyond — the same photo in both works, reversed — a faceless figure scurries behind a pillar, disappearing down a corridor.
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As the Kafkaesque drama of a man unable to get a transfer, "Zama" shares the dislocation and torpor characteristic of the Salta Trilogy.
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"Applying for visas seems to have become incredibly complicated this year, almost Kafkaesque in complexity," said Nick Barley, Edinburgh International Book Festival director.
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It suggests that an enduring representation of the period may not lie in furious condemnation: it may be closer to the word "Kafkaesque".
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Their strategy ultimately failed, but not before Dr. Sheikhzadeh would undergo what he, his lawyer and his friends depicted as a Kafkaesque ordeal.
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Executives of The Washington Post, who say Mr. Rezaian is innocent of any wrongdoing, have described his prosecution and imprisonment as a Kafkaesque farce.
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Aggregation My TV is set up with four remotes, and watching John Oliver after broadcast requires me to press nine button via Kafkaesque menus.
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The fallout can be seen in the Kafkaesque horror stories DeVos recounted — but also in dozens of lawsuits by students expelled on dubious charges.
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The end result would remain Kafkaesque: How do you prove not that you aren't a terrorist, but that you shouldn't be a suspected terrorist?
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This morning, after a prolonged, Kafkaesque legal battle that pitted her against the Trump administration, Jane Doe was finally able to get an abortion.
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The word "Kafkaesque" is overused, but it comes to mind every time I try to retrieve a package in the face of staggering indifference.
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The writing falters, overwhelmed by numbers, data, Kafkaesque interpretations of statistics, invasive medical procedures undergone in a fever of superstition or increasingly untenable hope.
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So Mr. Lopez is taking the Kafkaesque step of training for a second job as one of the part-time baggage handlers he oversees.
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A kafkaesque creation, the sculpture earmarks the ceaseless verticality of Constantin Brancusi's "Endless Column" (1918) through its blunt rendition of America's faulty ladder of success.
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In one particularly Kafkaesque case in 2016, police raided the house of a lawyer who had represented a client charged with possession of extremist material.
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But only about half have lawyers even though experts have long likened immigration law to the tax code in complexity, with some calling it Kafkaesque.
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When kids are affected like that, as they often are, this system of jailing people who can't pay fines is grotesque as well as Kafkaesque.
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They are currently developing an app called Bureaucrazy aimed at simplifying the maze of filling out paperwork that can feel Kafkaesque, even for German citizens.
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You might have students read the Times article "The Essence of 'Kafkaesque'" from 1991 and watch this animated explanation of the term from TED-Ed.
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What followed was a Kafkaesque stretch of confusing statements and, ultimately, a double-digit number of months that did not count toward her forgiveness total.
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Along with other candidates, he takes a written and physical examination, and then makes his way through a Kafkaesque series of corridors and waiting rooms.
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But in using the term "Kafkaesque" to cavalierly describe any trivial befuddlement, we risk ignoring how far-reaching are the conditions described in his fiction.
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He described the firestorm surrounding Anita Hill's allegations that he sexually harassed her as "Kafkaesque" and a "grave and irreparable injustice" to him and his family.
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In cities that have experienced serious outbreaks — Seattle; Boston; New Rochelle, N.Y. — patients who fear they have coronavirus describe Kafkaesque quests to find out their status.
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Bureaucracies that turned seemingly mundane activities like registering for classes into Kafkaesque experiences — "getting Wayned," students at Wayne State used to call it — are being streamlined.
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It's a Kafkaesque web, and it's a little depressing, but it's also inspiring to see the sort of work that's being done to sort it all out.
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Six stories spanning seven episodes run the gamut from kafkaesque interrogations to trials by media in this endlessly fascinating, endlessly frustrating, and formally staggering Netflix original series.
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It surely is a kind of Kafkaesque cruelty that a condemned inmate can only successfully challenge a method of execution if he can identify a better one.
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Players complained endlessly about not having enough space for all their gear and weapons, the lack of narrative and cinematic direction, and an almost Kafkaesque progression system.
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Another seasoned human-rights expert who has visited Guantánamo describes it as "a Kafkaesque legal conundrum".. The accused have much weaker rights than in a federal court.
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"We wanted to make a game that highlighted the Kafkaesque absurdity of a refugee's situation," said Gabriel Helfenstein, one half of the duo that comprises Outlands Games.
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" JC Hewitt, whose law firm frequently works with Amazon sellers, calls the system's mandatory guilty pleas, arbitrary verdicts, and obscure language "a Kafkaesque bureaucracy with bad writing.
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"Kafkaesque" is overused as an adjective to describe authoritarian regimes, but one aspect of the word is apt — the comic absurdity of how power is sometimes wielded.
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With its violence and Kafkaesque tone, Fox's current take on Batman, "Gotham," is also a far cry from the color-splashed, Dutch-tilted camera work of its predecessor.
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Our narrator examines her surroundings — the eccentric patients and doctors, the absurd daily activities, the Kafkaesque system — with a blunt and biting wit that leaves little room for sentimentality.
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But this panel has shown young scientists that doing so might expose them to endless fishing-expedition subpoenas, dead-end Kafkaesque inquisitions, and even threats to their physical safety.
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Fixing your credit report can be a Kafkaesque nightmare, such that a cottage industry of dubious "credit repair" companies has popped up simply to navigate people through the process.
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Our detention and deportation system is further obscured by a Kafkaesque, multi-agency bureaucracy that must be navigated in a language foreign to most of those ensnared in it.
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In the elaborate game of public chess that is his return to the spotlight following an extended and somewhat Kafkaesque entanglement with the legal system, these are loud moves.
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After a preliminary skirmish in 1974, they reached heights of properly Kafkaesque absurdity after Esther left the priceless stash to her daughter Eva, a retired El Al employee, in 2007.
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You recognize it yourself—an almost Kafkaesque situation One criticism of the book is that much of Kabakov's writing prior to 1988 is not really intended for a wide audience.
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"It's this sort of Kafkaesque, never-ending cycle of being trapped in solitary confinement, not achieving perfection," Amy Fettig, deputy director of the ACLU's National Prison Project, said by phone.
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In a particularly Kafkaesque twist, the D.A. told Norma that because her family court case involved a minor, she wouldn't even be allowed to see the paperwork associated with it.
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But for the soldiers in Netflix's War Machine, war is more like purgatory: an endless Kafkaesque slog through bureaucracy, punctuated infrequently by moments of actual fighting, with no end in sight.
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Its narrator, Ryder, is a pianist who arrives in a central European city to play a concert, but the novel fractures almost immediately into a Kafkaesque world of appearance and illusion.
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EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Foreign authors invited to Edinburgh to appear in the world's biggest arts festival are being put off by a British visa process which organizers say is humiliating and Kafkaesque.
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Last week two dissidents were jailed on spurious charges of inciting racial hatred, following a Kafkaesque trial sparked by a discussion on Facebook about an unpublished book written two decades ago.
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At the center of it all is the portly, balding, endlessly snacking and entertaining Gaffigan, a truly Kafkaesque figure who is constantly waking up in a world that he barely understands.
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" "I think that we've gone beyond the Orwellian into the Kafkaesque," Holdsworth, senior vice president of issues management at MWWPR Public Affairs, told hosts Buck Sexton and Krystal Ball on "Rising.
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After weeks of pleading with Delvey to pay her back, and getting Kafkaesque excuses in return, Williams ultimately came to believe that Delvey was a scammer, and she was a victim.
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My Kafkaesque experience of the last two years has taught me to better appreciate the importance of an independent judiciary, one that operates in full conformity with universal norms of justice.
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Tucked behind this Kafkaesque scene is the work Zohra Opoku — truly not to be missed, and striking directly at the heart of the exhibition's theme of material as a proxy for humanity.
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The Islamic Society of Basking Ridge argues that the Township of Bernards, N.J., and others have blocked the construction of a mosque by raising unreasonable objections and devising a "Kafkaesque" approval process.
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As a co-founder of Greatland Ganja, a cannabis-growing operation in Alaska, Leif Abel has discovered that settling up with the state government that licenses his cultivation is a Kafkaesque mindfuck.
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The opera's engrossing mix of bleak humor and Kafkaesque confusion starts in the opening scene, when Michel (the tenor Aaron Blake) encounters a young boy who accuses him of making things up.
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The reality for Arab citizens is Kafkaesque: The state refuses to create municipal plans to accommodate growing communities, and instead destroys homes that are built without permits it makes impossible to obtain.
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Daniel Blake (Dave Johns), a widowed carpenter eager to return to work after a heart attack, finds himself caught in a Kafkaesque nightmare caused partly by the privatization and automation of government services.
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Then, in 2007, a guy he knew, who had written a Kafkaesque novel about a Nigerian who wakes up white, told him that Chimamanda was holding a writing workshop that September, in Lagos.
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My particular Kafkaesque nightmare is nothing more than punishment for the crime of being a vocal supporter of Donald Trump and for having worked with Roger Stone to promote Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
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But one can easily imagine a situation where the U.S. government would be hesitant to lay out specific charges against Huawei by citing national security concerns—a kind of Kafkaesque nightmare all around.
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I even tried to get a list of completed requests, not unlike the one the RCMP posts publicly, from these same departments, and it was a Kafkaesque nightmare of inconsistent policies and demands.
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But the confusion about this fairly straightforward policy directive is just a tiny taste of the Kafkaesque hell that still faces frantic migrant parents trying to locate kids who've been taken from them.
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In a concurrence to the August ruling, Circuit Judge Patricia Millett had admonished FERC for its use of a procedure she said created a "Kafkaesque regime" that insulated its decisions from judicial review.
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" The language in the society's own lawsuit was more blunt: "What should have been a simple board approval for a permitted use devolved into a Kafkaesque process that spanned an unprecedented four years.
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In a world in which women remain materially and existentially tethered to their male partners, this unique Merchant-Ivory production is a forlorn reminder of the Kafkaesque entrapments that society fashions for women.
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"Based on racial and ethnic attributes, [the museum] caused Mr. Hetta to be consigned to a Kafkaesque nightmare that has now placed him in fear for his future and his security," the complaint says.
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All that stamping and paper-shuffling helped make life in Croatia a Kafkaesque morass, though, so the government has decided it's time to stamp out the stamp before it suffocates an already weak economy.
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My last play What They Want to Hear deals with a Syrian archeologist who has been living this Kafkaesque nightmare trying to get recognized as a refugee in Germany for the last 5 years.
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Hussein Al Shatheli, a Palestinian born in Syria, describes his harrowing flight to Germany via Turkey, Greece and Switzerland and his many costly attempts to buy forged travel documents as a surreal, Kafkaesque odyssey.
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It's a Kafkaesque world in which landowners are tied up in endless litigation and threatened with steep fines and imprisonment for the very environmental stewardship that attracted species to their land in the first place.
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Clad in inmate's clothes, forbidden at times to speak, summoned irregularly before a "commission" for interrogations, he drifted in a Kafkaesque world of bizarre "treatments," complete with a dreaded Seventh Wing, reserved for dangerous madmen.
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Its title notwithstanding, she looks less like a woman, or a Kafkaesque beetle, than a cut-to-the-quick praying mantis, an insect that sometimes kills and eats its male partner during or after sex.
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At its headquarters (which he describes as a mix between a "Kafkaesque castle and Willy Wonka") games designers sport dark-blue engineering jackets like those worn by Japanese factory workers, with pens in their breast pockets.
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In Black Is the Color, a sailor left adrift in a lifeboat due to Kafkaesque circumstances is comforted by a mermaid, who treats him like he's an average Tinder date who texts more than she'd like.
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Innocent Americans are placed on a Kafkaesque No-Fly List, and the prostrations one must endure before the security theater that is TSA airport security remain an affront to the dignity of flyers of all nationalities.
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But in a Kafkaesque twist, one can legally sell the finished product—provided, of course, one has the proper license from the Ministry of Agriculture, according to Murad and interviews with charcoal makers in the region.
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Their minute-and-a-half-long video includes trivia about the author whose work inspired the term "Kafkaesque," combined with artful footage of the 10-meter-tall, 45-ton, stainless steel stack of 42 revolving layers.
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With its historical setting and named characters, "Beasts Head for Home" diverges from the surreal landscape of Abe's best-known work, "The Woman in the Dunes," but alienation is at the Kafkaesque heart of both novels.
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Grieving relatives not only have to face the Kafkaesque nightmare of getting justice from the same system that struck their kin down, they also have to argue in the public sphere for their slain 's very humanity.
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A Hologram for the King, the Dave Eggers book, is a strange, energetic, almost-Kafkaesque story about a man, totally lost in Saudi Arabia, on an impossible quest to save himself and his relationship with his daughter.
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Starting Friday, certain provisions under GDPR give people a new "right to explanation," as legal experts call it, to avoid a Kafkaesque future where people can't question the decisions made by artificial intelligence that affect everyday life.
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Aviv focuses on the Kafkaesque odyssey of Julie Belshe, a mother of three who spent years extracting her parents from the talons of a woman, April Parks, who was later indicted on charges of perjury and theft.
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The whole thing starts to feel a bit Kafkaesque when you get to the end and realize that you can "display" your registration number by writing it on the battery and then tucking that inside the aircraft. WAT?
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Government is capable of doing great good but, like any big organisation, it is prone to incompetence, capture by powerful insiders and Kafkaesque indifference to the plight of the ordinary men and women Ms Warren most cares about.
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It really stood out, because the rest of them were so graphic and violent, and then there was just this one little Kafkaesque existential horror story, that really read to me like an episode of The Twilight Zone.
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But what about poor Susanna, whose idyllic bath is intruded upon by lecherous Elders who attempt to rape her, then falsely accuse her of promiscuity and establish a Kafkaesque trial in which they are the witnesses and judges?
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But critics say that is the reasonable-sounding bottom line to a Kafkaesque deduction: For building permits to be granted, a village must have an approved master zoning plan, and Israel almost never approves Palestinian applications for either.
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Though he is technically free, he is still confined to a cell because of a Kafkaesque bureaucratic dilemma: The state requires people like him to be released to a supportive housing facility, but there is not one available.
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"What should have been a simple board approval for a permitted use devolved into a Kafkaesque process," said the suit, filed on behalf of the society by Adeel A. Mangi of the Manhattan law firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler.
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Just this week, a member of my family endured the Kafkaesque experience of being told that she needed to show up for an appointment even if she were no longer sick or face a penalty, thanks to insurance rules.
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As described by Ms. Secor, their ordeals often read like Kafkaesque nightmares in which "nearly every Iranian was guilty of something that could carry a prison sentence" or worse, be punished by death (apostasy, alcohol consumption and "crimes against chastity").
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For example, the epithet "Kafkaesque" is often lazily applied to any situation with a tingle of bureaucratic menace; Mr Griffiths shows how the mood is produced by small words such as "if" and "but", around which Kafka's sentences twist and pivot.
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In the end, Trump was exonerated of "colluding" with Russia, however, the blatantly partisan team of Robert Mueller bent over backwards to hand Democrats numerous counts of "possible" obstruction crimes, within an absurd and Kafkaesque perversion of the justice system.
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This parched landscape was where he would set two early novels: "In the Heart of the Country" (1977), his prismatic portrait of a murderous rural housewife, and "Life & Times of Michael K" (1983), his minimal, Kafkaesque fable of the apartheid state.
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I am not going to lie the first minute and 20 seconds of this video is extremely my shit, but then I go hard for brutalism, symmetry, and slightly off-putting depictions of the Kafkaesque nightmare that is modern life.
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Browder, who ran a large investment fund in Moscow for a decade before being banned from the country as a national security threat in 2005, could not immediately be reached for comment, but he wrote on Twitter that the accusations were Kafkaesque.
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"Why the left is triggered by Trump is because they understand they're in a Kafkaesque nightmare, that Donald Trump is going to be in their personal lives 10, 20 and 30 years from now — and the reason is Don McGahn," Bannon said.
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One where you can watch reviews of seven different kinds of Oreos followed by 45 minutes of ASMR chiropractic adjustment followed by something else until suddenly it's 3am, your mouth is bone dry, and your recommended videos are a series of Kafkaesque nightmares.
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"Thus, under this Kafkaesque procedure, they will be removed back to the very country where they fear persecution and torture while awaiting a decision on whether they should be subject to removal because of their fears of persecution and torture," Saris wrote.
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In a typically Kafkaesque short prose poem, "Plans of the Night," she gives to an owl and a "Deeply Skeptical Pigeon" the role of artist and antagonist: It was possible to perform the feats for which he was famed During the Day.
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An accomplished artist and poet, Liu told Associated Press reporters during an unexpected visit to her home in 2012 that she had anticipated China would punish her for her husband&aposs Nobel award but she had not expected to be kept under "Kafkaesque" house arrest.
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While tech higher ups awkwardly rub shoulders with Trump and his tech whisperer Peter Thiel, tech platforms still engage in petty, irrelevant protests against Trump, such as Twitter's comically impotent threat to possibly ban Trump's account if he violates their Kafkaesque terms of service.
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But there's virtually no hope of appeal for individuals who fail the assessment because they've been placed on one of the US government's terrorist watch lists, which are compiled under a Kafkaesque, extrajudicial process and have spurred class-action lawsuits for frequently targeting innocent Muslims.
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For while the voice of Lucia is funnier, sharper and more poetic than the deliberately flat and inexplicit prose of his previous books, and the American landscape he depicts is far more terrifying than any Kafkaesque prison, this novel gradually loses focus as it develops.
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Balde's appears to be among the first public cases of the Trump administration dealing with the unique circumstances of a stateless person, a class of immigrant that live in a Kafkaesque situation that usually cannot be resolved by standard processes of classifying and removing immigrants.
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Clad in white shoes, sporting a tie, and with a wry perspective on his place as the last man standing in a Kafkaesque world of arcane filing cabinet systems packed with folders brimming with clips and photographs, he deserves his own spin-off series.
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I was at a Waterloo Engineering alumnus event in San Francisco this week (it turns out there are almost 23,2300 of us in the Bay Area) and, inevitably, the arc of every conversation bent towards immigration, and how Kafkaesque it can be, even for us fortunate Canadians.
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These are some of the surreal and witty vignettes imagined by German artist Frank Kunert, who has been photographing his hand-built miniature sets since the 1990s, melding a Wes Anderson–style love of whimsical detail with a mordant, Kafkaesque outlook on the absurdity of modern life.
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In this Kafkaesque and surreal world, the mainstream media spent the primary season virtually campaigning for Trump and blacking out other GOP candidates for the nomination, and spent the fall serving as a megaphone for attacks against Clinton spread by Russian espionage and fake news sites.
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Warrenism's obsession with policy detail sometimes smacks of managerial paternalism, but it aims at building and streamlining the capacity of government to reliably deliver the high-quality public goods citizens demand in a way that relieves them of the burdens of confusing paperwork and Kafkaesque administrative complexity.
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An outdoor sculpture by the Iraqi-Kurdish artist Hiwa K — a kind of honeycomb-style refugee shelter — qualifies, too, though it's a video by this artist on view in the Kassel Stadtmuseum, about the Kafkaesque absurdities of trying to find shelter, that is the real must-see.
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Then I summoned Louie, played by Danny DeVito, the abusive dispatcher, and considered how much easier our search would be if we were interacting with Louie, how much more humane—or at least human—his nastiness was than this Kafkaesque chain of politely ineffectual customer reps.
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In Krasznahorkai's writing, the banal and the quotidian are constant gateways to mystical revelations and Kafkaesque insights about our absurd postmodern world — or at least, they could be, if his characters, and we as ride-alongs, could only manage to catch them before they vanish into ephemera.
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The possibility that Kenya&aposs Supreme Court could nullify the second presidential election this year and order a third vote threatens a "Kafkaesque situation where we have elections for years and years," said Martin Kimani, a presidential envoy and head of a government task force on counter-terrorism.
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In this Kafkaesque system, even if you have a completely valid reason to seek refuge in the United States, you have virtually no way to prepare a solid case for asylum, no reliable way to contact your children, and no guarantee that you will ever see them again.
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After being told their whole lives about the importance of a college education, then working hard to get into the best school they could, they graduated into a Kafkaesque existence, shackled to debts they have limited ability to repay while working jobs that leave them living at subsistence levels.
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Instead of the inner lives of old- and new-world Orthodox Jews in his debut story collection "For the Relief of Unbearable Urges" or the Kafkaesque tribulations of Jewish parents during Argentina's "dirty war" in "The Ministry of Special Cases," his latest book is essentially a political thriller.
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If I told the story of my Kafkaesque law school years, I would want to dwell on their curious characters and emotional textures, alert to how such things were shaped by the institution's whiteness, but not feeling pressed to shuffle every detail into line behind a clickbait claim of violence.
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This week, some 24 hours after Israeli missiles allegedly destroyed joint Syrian-Iranian military sites in Syria, Netanyahu gave an encore: a Kafkaesque 20-minute PowerPoint presentation to transmit just one message–that the nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is based on false information.
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Yet, the case rolls on, adding a Kafkaesque twist to the increasingly assertive actions of a security apparatus seemingly bent on proving the Kremlin's harshest critics right when they say that Russia has taken a dangerous turn as President Vladimir V. Putin serves out what is supposed to be his final term.
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Their tastes range from the Kafkaesque (see a man get marooned on an escalator in Battles' "My Machines" music video) to the daring (read their rejected pitch for Beyonce's "Countdown"), to the downright destructive (the Best Director VMA-winning "Turn Down For What"), imbuing Daniels' commercials, music videos, and short film worlds with their hyper-creative, deconstructive style.
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Smith has always been sharp and brutal, and often funny, in her Kafkaesque moments — fruitless passport or loan applications, attempts to unsubscribe from emails — but when she skewers the inner workings of a bureaucracy that detains asylum seekers indefinitely, the tone rises correspondingly to the desperate laughter of gallows humor, the deadpan of the dead at heart.
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By beginning his first novel on such a blatantly Kafkaesque note, it's as if the British writer Tom Lee is announcing on Page 1 that he's forgoing all subtlety when it comes to his central metaphor — physical disfigurement as a product of bourgeois dread, a sum of the daily spiritual paper cuts that aspirational living can inflict.
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But if an inventor develops an idea and obtains a patent to protect his property in the marketplace, if he is successful, he will find himself harassed and run through a Kafkaesque bureaucratic process at the board, where he bears all the risk of losing and the petitioners either win or walk away with no consequences to them.
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The president's order allowed for exceptions in the "national interest," but lawyers for some travelers had described getting one as a Kafkaesque exercise, with the State Department's website warning that no emergency applications would be heard, and Customs and Border Protection agents at United States airports all but unreachable because their clients were not being allowed to board planes.
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But really this Mandy Zuo story is just a preview of the Kafkaesque nightmares to come: Speaking on Wenzhou City Television, Huan said she discovered she had been logged out of the online shopping and payment gateways she used because the secure identification process, backed by facial recognition technology, simply did not know who she was.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Perhaps better translated simply as The Party and the Guests, since the word "report" does not really exist in the Czech title, O slavnosti a hostech, Jan Němec's 1966 film, A Report on the Party and the Guests, is an allegorical work with truly Kafkaesque elements, leading the Czech Communist government to ban the work.
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Take the "Kafkaesque" story physician's assistant Julie Eaker told Vox's Brian Resnick and Dylan Scott about trying to get one patient tested in California: First, Eaker called her local health department and was told her patient didn't qualify for testing since they hadn't traveled to China, per the guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the time.
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True, I wasn't a normal, mentally healthy person but I believe that if you take a normal, mentally healthy person—raised on due process and the usual expectations of Western democracy—and tell him that he's being detained, arbitrarily, because of some Kafkaesque snag (a doctor wasn't answering his pager), he would probably get agitated, paranoid, and incensed—all the TV attributes of a mental patient.
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There are also odd, Kafkaesque exchanges with Convergence escorts who speak a New Agey bureaucratese that masks their sinister work; and sci-fi-like glimpses of Artis and other patients being groomed for the next stage of their journeys, when their bodies will be placed in superinsulated pods (their brains and other vital organs having already been harvested for separate preservation, like those of Egyptian mummies).
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Describing the government's defense of its proposed new policy as "Kafkaesque" in some of its reasoning, Judge Dolly Gee of Federal District Court for the Central District of California said it was up to Congress, not the administration, to supplant a 245-year-old consent decree that requires children to be held in state-licensed facilities and released in most cases within 33 days.
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While some may argue that exercise is, in fact, not a choice but, as Mark Greif writes in his seminal n + 1 essay "Against Exercise," a Kafkaesque penal colony, an "emissary from the realm of biological processes" that forces you to "acknowledge the machine operating inside yourself," many others throughout history have simply drunk the protein-enriched Kool-Aid: Working out usually feels pretty good.
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