Der Process
by Franz Kafka, Jelko Peters · first published 2015
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PSA: "Der Process", English "The Trial", is old enough so you can read it for free on the internet, e.g. on Project Gutenberg: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/7849 It's a really entertaining read. And yes, it perfectly…
on “Google have declared Droidscript is malware” ↗> petty offences (which practically everyone commits with > some non-zero frequency, This isn't Josef K in Kafka's Der Process. Most people don't have any trouble avoiding arrestable behavior. Lawlessness is not a virtue. >ignorance of suffering Ads for bad for-pay universitites are good to remind us of... suffering? And…
on “Mathematician Says Big Data Is Causing a ‘Silent Financial Crisis’” ↗…But this is fully automated bureaucracy. Except instead of having well known rules or human bureaucrats we can confront Reminds me of a novel that was written over 100 years ago: > The Trial (German: Der Process,[1] later Der Proceß, Der Prozeß and Der Prozess) is a novel written by Franz Kafka between 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of Josef K.,…
on “Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless” ↗…of your traffic or other reasons that may have led to invalid activity in your appeal. I realize that the term Kafka-esque is a bit overused nowadays... but this sounds exactly like a plot summary of Der Process.
on “Google have declared Droidscript is malware” ↗I feel bad for the guy, but this is classic "Leopards ate my face". Kafka wrote "Der Process" (The trial) 100 years ago. People have warned in abundance that Codes of Conduct will lead to Der Process-like situations, and here we are. Cancelling others is "facing consequences". Cancelling you…
on “I Violated a Code of Conduct” ↗…name of the central character in Franz Kafka's The Castle, as well as that of The Trial. > "The term "Kafkaesque" is used to describe concepts and situations reminiscent of Kafka's work, particularly Der Process (The Trial) and Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis). Examples include instances in which bureaucracies overpower people, often in a surreal, nightmarish milieu that evokes feelings of senselessness, disorientation,…
on “Stages of Denial” ↗I like to remind people that the original German title of Kafka's The Trial is Der Process.
on “Technical Solutions versus Processes” ↗…translate because he exploits the relatively free word order of German to write elegantly structured long sentences that don't seem complex in German but can easily become complex in translation. I read Der Process in German, but I have also looked at one of the English translations, probably the one by Idris Parry, and I didn't like it much: it seemed rough, old-fashioned and generally hard to read compared with…
on “Franz Kafka Was a Health Insurance Administrator” ↗Oddly, it’s the plot to Franz Kafka - Der Process!
on “Tell HN: Cloudflare prevents transfer-out of domains, sets to 'pendingdelete'” ↗…manner. I spoke with a friend who's a journalist who said it might be an algorithm gone awry but if true... where do I go from there? I feel like the main character in "The Trial"[2] >The Trial (German: Der Process)[A] is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote,…
on “Has anyone else had their Reddit account Kafka'd? How did you solve the issue?” ↗…inhabits and the rules which govern it, and that can be extended to bureaucracy, but also obviously religion and morality, and just a blanket search for meaning. I also have read both the original German der Process and the English translation, and I feel that, even though German is my second language, the original has so much more terror and humor than the English version, which largely reads like a bureaucratic…
on “Franz Kafka Was a Health Insurance Administrator” ↗They use this book called "Der Process" as a manual
on “How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain” ↗