Thursday, February 08, 2007
(10:40 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
The Police
In Eric Santner's class this week, we were talking about Benjamin's "Critique of Violence," which necessarily entailed a discussion of the police. We had talked about Kafka over the previous few weeks, including particularly the story that Codpiece altered yesterday, and so Santner was talking about the "Kafkaesque" element in encounters with the police -- the cop might ask you if you know what you've done, he may tell you to get out of the car without offering any explanation, etc. Free-associating on this Kafkaesque element, he suggested that the next time we were pulled over and asked if we know why, we should respond, "Some say...."
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