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Pill Pod 55 - ”I Would Prefer Not To”

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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I Really Enjoyed Kakas M Metamorphosis

Kakas m metamorphosis is also like a great parallel, where, again, this character who has just completely misunderstood by society. They don't know what to do with him. He's so grotesque in the fact that he no longer works. Yeand not just starvation, but hunger. Because hunger is also the reason that ishmael left his urban environment to go on the whaling voyage. Hunger here is seen not just as the effect of madernity, but the condition ofmadernity. And hunger for what? Well, we don't know that hunger for anything but this. But, i mean, i don't say because i think we'r i know

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