Beckett's Posthuman: The Ontopology of

Abstract

Identifying the posthuman as that which is locatable within a half-posthumous space and which both has a subjectivity that is always divided and distanced from itself, and a corporeality of the same quality, this paper considers the mutually reflective ontology and topology of the unnamable narrator in Beckett's through the terms and . Drawing on Derrida, Blanchot, Butler and Latour, while engaging the recent turn to posthumanism in Beckett criticism, this paper examines how the unnamable posthuman and its narrative engage and nuance ontological questions of what it means to think subjectivity without a subject.

Stranger Things, Plant Life, and Posthuman Endgames: Reading Beckett with Others

“…While the former has been a recurrent feature in the readings of Beckett, the latter has not been as frequently discussed, until recently. During the last decade, several studies have appeared that explicitly address the more-than-human and posthuman elements in the work (e.g., Effinger 2011;Schwab 2012;Boxall 2015;Rabaté 2016;Moody 2017). While Rabaté offers a fine discussion of how the idea of the "posthuman" entered Beckett's work, and the literary and philosophical context of this (Rabaté 2016, pp.…”