Ben Kafka
Biographic Data
| ID | 1050957 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Kafka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Kafka |
| SIGNATURE | BEN KAFKA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Problem of the Fetish
"The Problem of the Fetish gathers William Pietz's innovative writing on the fetish object and the history of the "fetish" as a concept. Engaging extensively with historical documents, Pietz traces the genealogy of fetishism from encounters between European colonizers and African communities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the emerging social sciences. Discussing the role of fetishism in anthropology, political economy, psychiatry, …
From the Back and Side
Research Article| October 01 2019 From the Back and Side Ben Kafka Ben Kafka Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 213–216. https://doi.org/10.5406/historypresent.9.2.0213 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ben Kafka; From the Back and Side. History of the Present 1 October 2019; 9 (2): 213–216. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/his…
Returning to the Repressed
Research Article| October 01 2019 Returning to the Repressed Ben Kafka Ben Kafka Ben Kafka is an associate professor of media, culture, and communication; comparative literature; and history at NYU. He is also a psychoanalyst working with adult and adolescent patients in private practice. He is the author of The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork (Zone Books, 2012). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Histor…
Human, Also Human
The first time you hear a patient's unconscious, I mean really hear it in all of its immediacy and intimacy, there's a shock-no matter how much Freud you've read, how much analysis you've had, how prepared you think you are. My first patient was an eleven-year-old boy. We met two or three times a week at his school, a middle school for bright children from poor, mostly black and brown families. There we were in one of our sessions, which were hel…
The Demon of Writing
The Demon of Writing
This article investigates the case of a clerk in the Committee of Public Safety who claimed to have rescued more than a thousand men and women from the Terror of 1793-94 by delaying, diverting, and destroying files. It considers the historical and theoretical implications of his actions, arguing that the materiality of paperwork is critical to understanding the powers and failures of the modern state
The Demon of Writing
The Demon of Writing
This article investigates the case of a clerk in the Committee of Public Safety who claimed to have rescued more than a thousand men and women from the Terror of 1793-94 by delaying, diverting, and destroying files. It considers the historical and theoretical implications of his actions, arguing that the materiality of paperwork is critical to understanding the powers and failures of the modern state
The Demon of Writing
This article investigates the case of a clerk in the Committee of Public Safety who claimed to have rescued more than a thousand men and women from the Terror of 1793-94 by delaying, diverting, and destroying files. It considers the historical and theoretical implications of his actions, arguing that the materiality of paperwork is critical to understanding the powers and failures of the modern state
The Demon of Writing
Human, Also Human
The first time you hear a patient's unconscious, I mean really hear it in all of its immediacy and intimacy, there's a shock-no matter how much Freud you've read, how much analysis you've had, how prepared you think you are. My first patient was an eleven-year-old boy. We met two or three times a week at his school, a middle school for bright children from poor, mostly black and brown families. There we were in one of our sessions, which were hel…
From the Back and Side
Research Article| October 01 2019 From the Back and Side Ben Kafka Ben Kafka Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 213–216. https://doi.org/10.5406/historypresent.9.2.0213 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ben Kafka; From the Back and Side. History of the Present 1 October 2019; 9 (2): 213–216. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/his…
Returning to the Repressed
Research Article| October 01 2019 Returning to the Repressed Ben Kafka Ben Kafka Ben Kafka is an associate professor of media, culture, and communication; comparative literature; and history at NYU. He is also a psychoanalyst working with adult and adolescent patients in private practice. He is the author of The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork (Zone Books, 2012). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Histor…
The Problem of the Fetish
"The Problem of the Fetish gathers William Pietz's innovative writing on the fetish object and the history of the "fetish" as a concept. Engaging extensively with historical documents, Pietz traces the genealogy of fetishism from encounters between European colonizers and African communities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the emerging social sciences. Discussing the role of fetishism in anthropology, political economy, psychiatry, …
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