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Surveillance and/as Sublimity in Franz Kafka’s The Trial

Author(s) Mr. Dipankar Gharami
Country India
Abstract This paper attempts to understand the dynamicity of space and its instrumentality in autocratic surveillance operated by the institution of law through Franz Kaka’s thought-piercing work The Trial. It seeks to understand the concept(s) of sublimity vis-á-vis surveillance mechanism by conflating the Foucauldian notion of ‘heterotopia’ and the Kantian expression of the idea of sublimity. The paper examines how the protagonist, Josef K., succumbs to the politics of space devised by the bureaucratic milieu. It studies the question of how the charismatic confluence of surveillance and sublimity intervenes to cause an unbridgeable rupture between the protagonist’s groping to witness the progression of his trial and the institutional deferral of his trial that ends up anchoring the protagonist to a liminal space wherein the protagonist is caught up between the inside and the outside the topography of law and the illusion of inclusion and inkling of exclusion, problematizing the question of subjectivity. The basic argument is how the court, as an institution of law, engineers a certain model of bureaucracy that culminates in a sublime regime: a transcendental expression of gaze that transcends and transforms the protagonist’s consciousness of self, rendering him the status of a subject.
Keywords surveillance, sublimity, threshold, consciousness, space
Field Arts
Published In Volume 8, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On 2026-03-25
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i02.72358
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