Stranger Things, Plant Life, and Posthuman Endgames: Reading Beckett with Others
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چکیده
This essay reads work by Samuel Beckett, especially his prose, with a focus on vegetal ontology and plant life, soil, mud, dirt. By juxtaposing Beckett recent fiction, e.g., the Netflix series Stranger Things, contemporary theory, general ecology of Erich Hörl, posthuman entanglements relations are discussed as part an ontological infrastructure in texts, which can also be linked to Beckett’s interest prosthetics technical media. It is suggested that approach this kind might offer new perspectives dispersed subjectivity texts.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Humanities
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2076-0787']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/h11020032