Sensor City

In his 1926 novel, The Castle, Franz Kafka encapsulates themes of alienation, lack of control, and enhanced feelings of individual powerlessness. The novel seems like a presentiment of a dystopian society governed by opaque contracts and algorithmic systems we barely understand. Yet at the same time, Kafka reveals possibilities to resist such elusive forces, embodied by the Land Surveyor K., who refuses to surrender to any of the castle’s authorities.