"You're misunderstanding the facts of the situation", said the priest, "the judgement does not happen all at once, the proceedings gradually turn into the judgement."
-- The Trial (the Process)"I go the way that Providence dictates with all the assurance of a sleepwalker."
--Hitler, Munich, 1936Niemand zeugt für den Zeugen (No one bears witness for the witness)
--Paul Celan
Peter Canning has taught comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley and at the University of Minnesota. He has published articles on philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literature, and is currently writing on aesthetic cosmology, on Lacan and Deleuze, and on perverse structures in institutional discourse. An essay, "Burn, Signifier, Burn," developing some of the themes of "Jesus Christ, Holocaust," was published in Acting Out in Groups, ed. L. Rickels (University of Minnesota Press, 1999).