Introduction : around the book -- Extraterrestrial Kafka : ahead to the graphic novel -- Kafka's imaginary : a cognitive psychology footnote -- Booking Benjamin : the fate of a medium -- Pulsations of respect, or, Winged impossibility : poetic deconstruction -- Hegel, Glas, and the broader modernity -- Systems, games, and the player : did we manage to become human? -- Atmospherics of mood -- Thinking flat out : back to Bateson