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Cluttered Universes brings Kantor's and Beckett's texts, theatres, and theories into conversation with deconstruction, new materialism, environmental humanities, and posthumanism. It reads their artistic universes as "cluttered" with matter, objects, and other nonhuman visitors.
List of contents
AcknowledgementsINTRODUCTIONThe Fear of Meaning Something
Cluttered Universes
Bringing Matter Back to Life
The Two Ends of the World
Putting the Void to Work
From Difference to Diffraction
Bibliography
CHAPTER 1. Diffraction of I: Diffractive Memories and Kantor's Theatre of DeathExit History
Dark Crammed Holes
Diffraction and Repetition
Photographic Apparatuses
Diffraction of I
Bibliography
CHAPTER 2. I Am Not I, Therefore I Am (at Home)
The Parrot and the Grave
Dusty Archives
Elevating the Rags
NeitherBibliography
CHAPTER 3. Resilient Survivors: Insects, Mannequins, and the Death of the NonhumanNonhuman Noises, Excessive Images
Heretic Machines
Dying Is Never Death
The Logic of the Swarm
Coda: Insect Technologies
Bibliography
CHAPTER 4. Elsewhere but Here: Beckett's Exhausted Ecologies and Liminal IntimaciesA Tree with Too Many Leaves
The Ecopoetics of Exhaustion
Thus Flesh and Bone Subsist
Intimacy Is Persistence
Global Failures
Bibliography
CONCLUSIONSIndex
About the author
Michä Kisiel is a literary scholar, translator, editor, and assistant professor at Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa, Poland. In 2019, he received his PhD in literary studies. He has published in
Journal of Beckett Studies,
Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui,
ER(R)GO,
Zoophilologica, and
Review of International American Studies, among other places. He is an editorial team member of
ER(R)GO: Theory - Literature - Culture and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences Commission on Literary History (Katowice Branch). His academic interests include experimental literature, deconstruction, materialist theories of the nonhuman, contemporary poetry, theatre, and drama, and environmental humanities.
