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.