• Royce Fellowship
Ben
Kafka

Concentration 

Modern Culture and Media; History

Award Year 

1996

Ben's research will explore how conspiracy propaganda works with history, and how it works in history, as part of American pop culture. He is also interested in studying the use of conspiracy histories in propaganda as a formal problem, in the texture of its language, in its styles and techniques. Kafka's work will focus on the 15 years following World War II.

Ben is an associate professor in NYU's Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and a candidate analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR). He is the author of The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork (Zone Books, 2012).