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Seeing things: the brain and Beckett's archive

Fifield, Peter (2015) Seeing things: the brain and Beckett's archive. Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui 27 (1), pp. 171-183. ISSN 0927-3131.

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Abstract

This article considers two contemporary cultural preoccupations – brains and archives – in the light of Samuel Beckett’s work. It sees these not so much as a pseudocouple but twins proper, connected by their recourse to materiality. It addresses the experience of working with archival material, and concentrates particularly on the effects of handling Beckett’ s handwriting; the contact that this creates and how we can account for it. It fina lly turns to the theory of the extended mind, and considers the implications of this theory for our work and our accounts of physical culture

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Item Type: Article
Additional Information: “Beginning of the murmur”: Archival Pre-texts and Other Sources - ISBN: 9789004309937
School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
Depositing User: Administrator
Date Deposited: 29 Feb 2016 11:12
Last Modified: 31 Jul 2025 23:02
URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12976

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