Behind Franz Kafka's A Report to an Academy,a masochist's report on his experiences with a sadist,lies a cas-tle of power made up of technocrats who abuse in the name of science.Red Peter,the ape-like presenter of the human name,is only the result of the production of power,the invisible protagonist of the novel.The Academy,the highest bureaucratic au-thority,used violence at all levels to discipline and manipulate Red Peter,forcing him into submission and luring him into slav-ery.Its essence is nothing more than the transformation from masochism to self-masochism under the guise of power.The pow-er discipline of the bureaucracy is a combination of the hard force of mechanical blows and the soft force of culture.The disci-pline results in Red Peter suffering from Stockholm syndrome,adapting to and worshiping power,and self-domesticating.
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