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Research paper thumbnail of “Beckett’s ‘Anthropo­scene’ from the Twentieth Century to the Twenty­-first Century”

Research paper thumbnail of "Stimuli in Play: Beyond the Page, Beyond the Stage"

Research paper thumbnail of "A Conceptual Study of the Hybridisation of Beckettian Creatures"

Research paper thumbnail of "Beckett and La Mettrie: From Man a Machine to a Techno-Human Being"

The Effect of (Cinematic) Technology on the Geneses of Play and Film Jean Antoine-Dunne (The Univ... more The Effect of (Cinematic) Technology on the Geneses of Play and Film Jean Antoine-Dunne (The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago) -'Ciné-metaphorism' and Beckett's Use of Distortion 16:30-16:45

Papers by Céline Thobois

Research paper thumbnail of "Leur vie d’homme presque, d’homme tout juste, d’homme assez”: Une étude de l’hybridation des créatures beckettiennes dans le contexte de l’Anthropocène

Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd hui 32 (2), 2020

Cet article offre une nouvelle mise en contexte des créatures beckettiennes dans l’ Anthropocène ... more Cet article offre une nouvelle mise en contexte des créatures beckettiennes dans l’ Anthropocène et la Grande Accélération, ce qui nécessite l’ introduction d’ un nouveau vocabulaire afin de conceptualiser les créatures hybrides de Beckett. Après la définition du concept de ‘techno-humain’ selon The Techno-Human Condition de Braden R. Allenby et Daniel Sarewitz, cet article étudie l’ usage que fait Beckett de la technologie dans Oh les beaux Jours et Comédie aux niveaux artistique, pratique et éthique, et montre comment cela ouvre la voie aux adaptations cybernétiques.

Research paper thumbnail of Review: How It Is by Samuel Beckett Symposium 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Review of All That Fall by Mouth on Fire

Book Chapters by Céline Thobois

Research paper thumbnail of Beckett and La Mettrie: From Man a Machine to a Techno-Human Being

Samuel Beckett and Technology, 2021

In Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre, Krapp’s Last Tape stands out as the first theatrical play to feature ... more In Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre, Krapp’s Last Tape stands out as the first theatrical play to feature a technological apparatus as a central agent of the performance. This innovative dramaturgy invites audiences to analyse human processes in connection with the functioning of the machine.
Beckett’s interest in mechanist theories has often been related to his study of René Descartes and post-Cartesian philosophers. In this lineage, Julien Offray de la Mettrie appears as the most radical thinker of anthropological materialism, but one that remains underexplored in Beckett studies. In recent years, the eighteenth-century physician and philosopher has been celebrated as a forefather of neurophysiology and as an early thinker of the posthuman condition.
By proposing a parallel reading of Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape and La Mettrie’s Man a Machine, this chapter investigates how both texts open unexpected avenues for thinking about what it means to be human in the context of changing paradigms of humanness. After an analysis of Krapp’s mechanistic digestive and creative processes through the Lamettrian concepts of continuity and organisation, the chapter focuses on Krapp’s imagination and sensuality via La Mettrie’s neurophysiology. The chapter eventually reflects on selfhood and ever-growing technological assistance of cognitive processes.

Research paper thumbnail of “Beckett’s ‘Anthropo­scene’ from the Twentieth Century to the Twenty­-first Century”

Research paper thumbnail of "Stimuli in Play: Beyond the Page, Beyond the Stage"

Research paper thumbnail of "A Conceptual Study of the Hybridisation of Beckettian Creatures"

Research paper thumbnail of "Beckett and La Mettrie: From Man a Machine to a Techno-Human Being"

The Effect of (Cinematic) Technology on the Geneses of Play and Film Jean Antoine-Dunne (The Univ... more The Effect of (Cinematic) Technology on the Geneses of Play and Film Jean Antoine-Dunne (The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago) -'Ciné-metaphorism' and Beckett's Use of Distortion 16:30-16:45

Research paper thumbnail of "Leur vie d’homme presque, d’homme tout juste, d’homme assez”: Une étude de l’hybridation des créatures beckettiennes dans le contexte de l’Anthropocène

Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd hui 32 (2), 2020

Cet article offre une nouvelle mise en contexte des créatures beckettiennes dans l’ Anthropocène ... more Cet article offre une nouvelle mise en contexte des créatures beckettiennes dans l’ Anthropocène et la Grande Accélération, ce qui nécessite l’ introduction d’ un nouveau vocabulaire afin de conceptualiser les créatures hybrides de Beckett. Après la définition du concept de ‘techno-humain’ selon The Techno-Human Condition de Braden R. Allenby et Daniel Sarewitz, cet article étudie l’ usage que fait Beckett de la technologie dans Oh les beaux Jours et Comédie aux niveaux artistique, pratique et éthique, et montre comment cela ouvre la voie aux adaptations cybernétiques.

Research paper thumbnail of Review: How It Is by Samuel Beckett Symposium 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Review of All That Fall by Mouth on Fire

Research paper thumbnail of Beckett and La Mettrie: From Man a Machine to a Techno-Human Being

Samuel Beckett and Technology, 2021

In Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre, Krapp’s Last Tape stands out as the first theatrical play to feature ... more In Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre, Krapp’s Last Tape stands out as the first theatrical play to feature a technological apparatus as a central agent of the performance. This innovative dramaturgy invites audiences to analyse human processes in connection with the functioning of the machine.
Beckett’s interest in mechanist theories has often been related to his study of René Descartes and post-Cartesian philosophers. In this lineage, Julien Offray de la Mettrie appears as the most radical thinker of anthropological materialism, but one that remains underexplored in Beckett studies. In recent years, the eighteenth-century physician and philosopher has been celebrated as a forefather of neurophysiology and as an early thinker of the posthuman condition.
By proposing a parallel reading of Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape and La Mettrie’s Man a Machine, this chapter investigates how both texts open unexpected avenues for thinking about what it means to be human in the context of changing paradigms of humanness. After an analysis of Krapp’s mechanistic digestive and creative processes through the Lamettrian concepts of continuity and organisation, the chapter focuses on Krapp’s imagination and sensuality via La Mettrie’s neurophysiology. The chapter eventually reflects on selfhood and ever-growing technological assistance of cognitive processes.

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