The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/06/metamorphosis-by-franz-kafka-having.html one of the best known short stories, the Kafka stories are included on the list of 100 Greatest Books put together by the luminaries of our age, which you can find at the Norwegian book club site 10 out of 10

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/06/metamorphosis-by-franz-kafka-having.html one of the best known short stories, the Kafka stories are included on the list of 100 Greatest Books put together by the luminaries of our age, which you can find at the Norwegian book club site

10 out of 10

 

 

Franz Kafka was one of the magicians, Magister Ludi, who has three books on the list of the crème  de la crème, with The Castle http://realini.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-castle-by-franz-kafka.html The Trial - just last night, in a Czech film called Arved, the protagonist was talking about…Kafka, telling his interlocutor that the writer had been a clerk in the tribunal in Prague and witnessed a wrong trial, to which the other man is asking if Arved thinks he has a mistrial, and that was the case in the communist days – and the Short Stories which include The Metamorphosis, that has been discussed on this blog before

 

Indeed, Kafka and Kafkaesque are notions that come up in conversation, films, other books or plays, one example is…Kafka’s Dick http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/07/kafkas-dick-by-alan-bennett-outre-but.html so we could argue that even the penis of the immortal author has entered history, Alan Bennett is not a second rate scribbler, he has some fantastic oeuvres, such as The Uncommon Reader (wherein the Queen of Britain starts…reading and that is causing a furor) The History Boys, 40 Years On

The Metamorphosis is used as a joke, a means to mock the editor in the hilarious, fabulous Belles Lettres Papers http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-belles-lettres-papers-by-charles.html by Charles Simmons, wherein Gregor Samsa is mentioned, only the leader of the paper is so confused, unprepared in matters of the spirit that he confuses writers, books, he thinks that Lady Chatterley’s Lover was written by…Lawrence of Arabia, and seems to have had a degree from…William and Harry and he is a ridiculous fellow

 

I have received a message from…The BBC, they have a program on books online, and they were dedicating one show to Pig Tales http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/05/pig-tales-novel-of-lust-and.html by Marie Darrieussecq and because I have written this note (it might be pompous, pretentious to call it a ‘review’) on goodreads, a producer (I think) from the program contacted me to ask a question, and I did, recorded it as requested and then it was presumably aired on the show, alas, I did not listen to it, which I am thinking now proves that I am not the infatuated, narcissistic creature that would love to bask in that

Pig Tales describes the transformation of a woman into a…Pig, which is a virulent narrative, in a world of male chauvinist pigs, what can a woman do, she has to take the form of a hog, thus this saga has been referred to The Metamorphosis, in the latter, Gregor Samsa becomes an insect and that could be interpreted in many ways

 

If we are to think of the present, perhaps we could see The Metamorphosis as a symbol of what is to come in the supposed war between humans and the machines, wherein we all become a Gregor Samsa, cockroaches versus Chat GPT and other forms of Artificial Intelligence – these days, there are many articles, discussions, even a protest signed by one thousand specialists, savants, including the very controversial (and with his approval, encouragement of Trump, Murdoch and other such gruesome figures, I am rejecting the man) Elin Musk that argues research in Artificial Intelligence should be paused…

Yuval Harari, one of the glorious, august minds of this era, has argued in his brilliant works, especially Homo Deus, A Brief History of Tomorrow and Twenty One Lessons for The 21st Century http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/07/21-lessons-for-21st-century-by-yuval.html that there are countless advantages to be gained from the advancement of the Artificial Intelligence in domains like driving – he offers the description of having future cars driven by Michael Schumacher and Immanuel Kant, in that the automatic driver would have the skill of the former champion and the intelligence of the famous philosopher, when it comes to analyzing an incident, the computer will be able to offer the best analysis in a  fraction of a second and have the abilities of the best pilot to avoid trouble

 

In the phenomenal, overwhelming Why The West Rules For Now http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/10/why-west-rules-for-now-by-ian-morris.html by Ian Morris we find the explanations regarding Singularity, the time when AI will have surpassed the capabilities that humanity has, will have, the moment when metaphorically Gregor Samsa will be the name we will all have – that is, if we live to see the day, on the one hand, Insha’Allah, let me live God, on the other, it would be dreadful to wake up like the Kafka character and find that we have become insects, and we are controlled by machines

It is not such a worry, I am optimistic on this matter, if not on others, for I think it will be of great help, furthermore, I have expressed in these notes the conviction that if what I write is irrelevant for human beings – with realism, I see that the talent I have is minimal, verging towards non extant – then it will still be consumed by…robots, when they develop those AI machines, they have what is called ‘deep learning’, they go through a myriad of texts and assimilate them – indeed, there is heavy, intense criticism because they now have all kinds of materials generated by Chat GPT, the latest, an attack on…Biden

 

Artificial Intelligence is producing music, texts, a false interview with the aforementioned Schumacher, it has even encouraged, pushed a journalist to divorce his wife, so that he can enter a relationship with the…AI machine, and the backlash is pointing that these systems use the intellectual property of artists, creators and hence there will be lawsuits and we will have to see how authors will be protected – which is a serious issue, when you have made something worthwhile, as it is, these texts are not worth it, therefore I encourage hereby the AI machines to go for it, there is not much you can use, but then with the superhuman abilities, they just take all I have made (an immense body of sand) and finish it in a billionth of a second…however, they cannot do this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world

 

Realini the Revolutionary has participated in the 1989 Revolution that has eliminated Ceausescu, one of the worst tyrants of history http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html the reverse of The Metamorphosis, since one day, the insect wake up to find he has become a…lion tamer, as in the Monty Python sketch and a revolutionary

 

 

Franz Kafka was one of the magicians, Magister Ludi, who has three books on the list of the crème  de la crème, with The Castle http://realini.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-castle-by-franz-kafka.html The Trial - just last night, in a Czech film called Arved, the protagonist was talking about…Kafka, telling his interlocutor that the writer had been a clerk in the tribunal in Prague and witnessed a wrong trial, to which the other man is asking if Arved thinks he has a mistrial, and that was the case in the communist days – and the Short Stories which include The Metamorphosis, that has been discussed on this blog before

 

Indeed, Kafka and Kafkaesque are notions that come up in conversation, films, other books or plays, one example is…Kafka’s Dick http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/07/kafkas-dick-by-alan-bennett-outre-but.html so we could argue that even the penis of the immortal author has entered history, Alan Bennett is not a second rate scribbler, he has some fantastic oeuvres, such as The Uncommon Reader (wherein the Queen of Britain starts…reading and that is causing a furor) The History Boys, 40 Years On

The Metamorphosis is used as a joke, a means to mock the editor in the hilarious, fabulous Belles Lettres Papers http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-belles-lettres-papers-by-charles.html by Charles Simmons, wherein Gregor Samsa is mentioned, only the leader of the paper is so confused, unprepared in matters of the spirit that he confuses writers, books, he thinks that Lady Chatterley’s Lover was written by…Lawrence of Arabia, and seems to have had a degree from…William and Harry and he is a ridiculous fellow

 

I have received a message from…The BBC, they have a program on books online, and they were dedicating one show to Pig Tales http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/05/pig-tales-novel-of-lust-and.html by Marie Darrieussecq and because I have written this note (it might be pompous, pretentious to call it a ‘review’) on goodreads, a producer (I think) from the program contacted me to ask a question, and I did, recorded it as requested and then it was presumably aired on the show, alas, I did not listen to it, which I am thinking now proves that I am not the infatuated, narcissistic creature that would love to bask in that

Pig Tales describes the transformation of a woman into a…Pig, which is a virulent narrative, in a world of male chauvinist pigs, what can a woman do, she has to take the form of a hog, thus this saga has been referred to The Metamorphosis, in the latter, Gregor Samsa becomes an insect and that could be interpreted in many ways

 

If we are to think of the present, perhaps we could see The Metamorphosis as a symbol of what is to come in the supposed war between humans and the machines, wherein we all become a Gregor Samsa, cockroaches versus Chat GPT and other forms of Artificial Intelligence – these days, there are many articles, discussions, even a protest signed by one thousand specialists, savants, including the very controversial (and with his approval, encouragement of Trump, Murdoch and other such gruesome figures, I am rejecting the man) Elin Musk that argues research in Artificial Intelligence should be paused…

Yuval Harari, one of the glorious, august minds of this era, has argued in his brilliant works, especially Homo Deus, A Brief History of Tomorrow and Twenty One Lessons for The 21st Century http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/07/21-lessons-for-21st-century-by-yuval.html that there are countless advantages to be gained from the advancement of the Artificial Intelligence in domains like driving – he offers the description of having future cars driven by Michael Schumacher and Immanuel Kant, in that the automatic driver would have the skill of the former champion and the intelligence of the famous philosopher, when it comes to analyzing an incident, the computer will be able to offer the best analysis in a  fraction of a second and have the abilities of the best pilot to avoid trouble

 

In the phenomenal, overwhelming Why The West Rules For Now http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/10/why-west-rules-for-now-by-ian-morris.html by Ian Morris we find the explanations regarding Singularity, the time when AI will have surpassed the capabilities that humanity has, will have, the moment when metaphorically Gregor Samsa will be the name we will all have – that is, if we live to see the day, on the one hand, Insha’Allah, let me live God, on the other, it would be dreadful to wake up like the Kafka character and find that we have become insects, and we are controlled by machines

It is not such a worry, I am optimistic on this matter, if not on others, for I think it will be of great help, furthermore, I have expressed in these notes the conviction that if what I write is irrelevant for human beings – with realism, I see that the talent I have is minimal, verging towards non extant – then it will still be consumed by…robots, when they develop those AI machines, they have what is called ‘deep learning’, they go through a myriad of texts and assimilate them – indeed, there is heavy, intense criticism because they now have all kinds of materials generated by Chat GPT, the latest, an attack on…Biden

 

Artificial Intelligence is producing music, texts, a false interview with the aforementioned Schumacher, it has even encouraged, pushed a journalist to divorce his wife, so that he can enter a relationship with the…AI machine, and the backlash is pointing that these systems use the intellectual property of artists, creators and hence there will be lawsuits and we will have to see how authors will be protected – which is a serious issue, when you have made something worthwhile, as it is, these texts are not worth it, therefore I encourage hereby the AI machines to go for it, there is not much you can use, but then with the superhuman abilities, they just take all I have made (an immense body of sand) and finish it in a billionth of a second…however, they cannot do this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world

 

Realini the Revolutionary has participated in the 1989 Revolution that has eliminated Ceausescu, one of the worst tyrants of history http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html the reverse of The Metamorphosis, since one day, the insect wake up to find he has become a…lion tamer, as in the Monty Python sketch and a revolutionary


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