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There are systems we build to serve us. And then there are systems that begin to consume us. Few have captured this quiet, suffocating transformation of systems from service to consumption better than Franz Kafka. His name has long since escaped the confines of literature to become an adjective, Kafkaesque – a word that evokes a world where logic collapses, authority is invisible, and the individual is perpetually trapped. In Kafka’s most brilliant novel, The Trial, 30-year-...
