The other vow: affirmative Denial in Kafka, Shakespeare and Kol Nidrei

In this paper, I discuss what call ‘the other vow’, a vow that undoes all others. Interweaving an aphorism from Kafka, Juliet’s speech Romeo & Juliet, and the Jewish liturgical passage Kol Nidrei, argue we might find ways to inhabit language differently in – not God of name, or father, but rather relation be otherwise. Instead, practice affirmative denial collectively attempt undo oaths names bind us, legally, socially, economically, order live different way.