The Fruit Fly, the Vermin, and the Prokurist: Operations of Appearing in Kafka’s Metamorphosis

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Spaces
5. Working on Barricades and Boulevards: Cultural Techniques of Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Paris 23
6. Cultural Techniques and Founding Fictions 47
7. A Message in a Bottle 61
8. Waiting: Cultural Techniques, Media, and Infrastructures 73
9. Orthopedics by the Roadside: Spikes and Studs as Devices of Social Normalization 87
10. Ballooning: Aeronautical Techniques from Montgolfier to Google 107
11. Texts/Bodies
12. Attached: The Object and the Collective 131
13. Monturen/montures: On Riding, Dressing, and Wearing. Nomadic Cultural Techniques and (the Marginalization) of Asian Clothing in Europe 141
14. Self-Imprints of Nature 165
15. Identifying, Categorizing, and Stigmatizing Fat Bodies 177
16. Techniques of the Body and Storytelling: From Marcel Mauss to César Aira 187
17. Collectives
18. Writing Out – Gathered Up at a Venture from All Four Corners of the Earth: Jean Paul’s Techniques and Operations (on Excerpts) 219
19. Collecting Texts: Miscellaneity in Journals, Anthologies, and Novels (Jean Paul) 243
20. Reading by Grouping: Collecting Discipline(s) in Brockhaus’s Bilder-Atlas 263
21. Patience and Precipitation: Two Figures of Historical Change 277
22. The Fruit Fly, the Vermin, and the Prokurist: Operations of Appearing in Kafka’s Metamorphosis 295
23. Collective Likeness: Mimetic Aspects of Liking 317
24. List of Figures 331
25. List of Contributors 335
26. Name Index 337
27. Subject Index 341