Kafka, toward an Artistic Research

Abstract

In 1975, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari released Kafka, toward a Minor Literature, a book in which they defined the revolutionary conditions of the literature written by a minority within the language of the majority in power. In 2024, we retype their words into a .doc file and we rewrite them in “suggesting” mode, replacing the concept of “Minor Literature” with the one of “Artistic research”. By doing so, we propose an academic writing exercise based on the displacement and replacement of words; a gesture based on appropriation that breaks up and interacts with the text. The writing signs coexist between these words, as well as the trace of each hand that produced it. The result is an interpretative transcription that suggests an analogy between the Minor Literature proposed by Deleuze and Guattari and Artistic Research at art schools.