Transcendence of the Human Far Beyond AI—Kafka’s <i>In the Penal Colony</i> and Schopenhauerian Eschatology by Søren Robert Fauth

“…The technological development in recent decades has been extraordinary, leading to new attempts to overcome the all-too-human condition. We dream of conquering death, upgrading our bodies into perfect performance machines and enhancing our intelligence through bio-nanotechnology. …”
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Les enfants de la guerre : Le Grand Cahier d’Agota Kristof by Carine Trevisan

“…Not only witness but also often victim of the brutality of the adults, the child can nevertheless “be identified with the attacker” and become a killer too. Giving fictitiously the word to children who make the test of the brutalisation of men’s and women’s behavior in the state of war, The Notebook, by the choice of an “ice-cold” writing – this book has been qualified of “exercise of cruelty” –, led to its extreme limit the representation of devastated childhood, so much so that it becomes disturbing: abolition of any faculty to dream, to imagine, anaesthesia of emotive life, destruction of anything that can make link with others, phenomena which produce insensitivity to death, received or given. …”
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