Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. Preface xiii
6. Introduction ‘Up to the neck in technical muck’: The Enduring Success of Beckett’s Technological Failures 1
7. Part I Mechanical and Electrical Technologies
8. Chapter 1 The Unmaking of Homo Faber: Beckett and the Exhaustion of Technē 11
9. Chapter 2 The Permanent Way: Movement and Stasis in Beckett’s Railways 29
10. Chapter 3 ‘with the mechanics of which I am unfamiliar’: The Strangeness of Technology in Beckett 44
11. Chapter 4 Beckett and La Mettrie: From Man a Machine to Techno-Human Being 59
12. Chapter 5 Monadic Clocks in Samuel Beckett’s Quad: Decomposing the ‘dramatized taboo’ 75
13. Part II Media Technologies and Intermediality
14. Chapter 6 Beckett’s Technography: Traces of Radio in the Later Prose 93
15. Chapter 7 Beckett’s Words and Music ‘or some other trouble’: Vaguening on the Airwaves 109
16. Chapter 8 ‘a medium for fleas’: Beckett, Mitrani and 1950s–1960s French Television Drama 125
17. Chapter 9 Beckett’s Multimedial Authorship: Language of Technology in the Genesis of Play and Film 142
18. Chapter 10 Beckett and Television: Anachronism as Innovation 157
19. Chapter 11 Making and Remaking Samuel Beckett’s What Where 172
20. Part III Ideas of Technology
21. Chapter 12 Portals of Invention: A ‘techno-logical’ Reading of the Prometheus Figure in Beckett’s The Unnamable 191
22. Chapter 13 Technology and the Naive Artist: Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape 208
23. Chapter 14 Beckett’s Invisible Matter: Echo, Technology and Posthuman Affect 224
24. Chapter 15 Digital Poetics and Digital Hermeneutics in Beckett Studies: Toward a Manuscript Chronology 240
25. Coda Viral Beckett 255
26. Index 263