Yes they are in there, in your computer. And they are called 'cookies' - how endearingly American, how quaintly applie pie. However these cookies are inedible, none the less they spew out information they have digested from you.
And they have all the information necessary to tell the proper authorities (people who want to make money from you) where you live, where you go, what you look at and what you buy.
I wonder what Kafka
would have made of this Kafkaesque phenomenon. For cookies like Kafka's wroting seem atemporal, freefloating, ephemeral. But cookies are tracking you relentlessly in cyber space.
Enough. Let's cut to the chase, 'cookies' as they are beguilingly termed are no more that a deeply cynical money making digital development.
However that makes them less Kafkaesque (I am
being overly adjectival again) for cookies have a clearly defined purpose, although they persecute us by their intrusion. In Kafka's world he does not know why and by whom he is being persecuted.
And they have all the information necessary to tell the proper authorities (people who want to make money from you) where you live, where you go, what you look at and what you buy.
I wonder what Kafka
Enough. Let's cut to the chase, 'cookies' as they are beguilingly termed are no more that a deeply cynical money making digital development.
However that makes them less Kafkaesque (I am
being overly adjectival again) for cookies have a clearly defined purpose, although they persecute us by their intrusion. In Kafka's world he does not know why and by whom he is being persecuted.
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