This text explores the enigmas and quirks of Kafka’s unfinished novel, The Castle. It is striking how this novel manages to meld together an endangering desire for knowledge with a depiction of the arcane workings of an institution. However, the key here, and its opening towards a new politics, is how it brings unconscious motivations and unquestioned servitude to the fore.
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This text was written in early 1999 at a time before the upswing of anti-capitalist protest at
Seattle, Prague, Genoa and at the Carnival against Capitalism in London. However, its far
from exhaustive critique of Left groupuscules inaugurated a long term writing and research
project that, combining psychoanalysis and literature to reassess capitalist social relations,
has gone by many names over the years: Micropolitics, Psyche-Pol, Affective Class etc.
This is a kindergarten they turn us into children and then tell us we must learn to fend for ourselves they diminish us and accuse us of lacking self-esteem they steal our dignity while offering admonitions of our failure to confront reality.
[Michael Moorcock, Mother London]