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Cultural Anorexia

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Cultural Anorexia

The Pursuit of Thicker Desires in a Thinning World

Luke Burgis
Apr 14, 2022
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Sinking Ship Productions, from their adaptation of Kafka's "A Hunger Artist". Photo credit: Kelly Stuart

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Franz Kafka wrote one of his most important works near the end of his life, a short story he titled A Hunger Artist, published in 1922.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, “fas…

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