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oapen-20.500.12657-638792023-07-13T02:46:21Z Chapter Slow Violence and Slow Going Salisbury, Laura Climate; disaster slow violence; slow going; catastrophe bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNP Pollution & threats to the environment::RNPG Climate change This This chapter reads Beckett’s fascination with what Steven Connor has called ‘slow going’ alongside Rob Nixon’s description of the ‘slow violence’ of climate breakdown. Following Nixon’s suggestion that ‘slow violence’ does not register readily in narratives and temporalities of crisis, I examine Beckett’s attention to what remains in a paradoxically stuck and ongoing time. Suggesting that Beckett’s work sticks with and witnesses catastrophe rather than crisis, the chapter uses The Lost Ones to explore Beckett’s commitment to staying with a disaster that cannot be overcome, alongside the articulation of a giving up that is not a decision but part of a drive to go on. Using Beckett’s interest in Freud’s death drive, I suggest that Beckett’s later texts work through materialisations of attachment and dependence as a way of thinking with and living with, rather than denying or repressing, the reality of the ‘nothing to be done’. 2023-07-12T14:00:29Z 2023-07-12T14:00:29Z 2023 chapter 9783031083679 9783031083709 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63879 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International Bookshelf_NBK592747.pdf Springer Nature Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 ff3b1195-4d19-483b-9733-c84acb6a7e91 d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9783031083679 9783031083709 Wellcome 12 205400/A/16/Z Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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This This chapter reads Beckett’s fascination with what Steven Connor has called ‘slow going’ alongside Rob Nixon’s description of the ‘slow violence’ of climate breakdown. Following Nixon’s suggestion that ‘slow violence’ does not register readily in narratives and temporalities of crisis, I examine Beckett’s attention to what remains in a paradoxically stuck and ongoing time. Suggesting that Beckett’s work sticks with and witnesses catastrophe rather than crisis, the chapter uses The Lost Ones to explore Beckett’s commitment to staying with a disaster that cannot be overcome, alongside the articulation of a giving up that is not a decision but part of a drive to go on. Using Beckett’s interest in Freud’s death drive, I suggest that Beckett’s later texts work through materialisations of attachment and dependence as a way of thinking with and living with, rather than denying or repressing, the reality of the ‘nothing to be done’.
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