Beckett, Deleuze and Performance

Daniel Koczy is a performance theorist and philosopher. He teaches philosophy at Newcastle University, UK, and in performance at Northumbria University, UK. His research has appeared in the Deleuze Studies journal (2012) and in the edited collection Deleuze and Beckett (2015).

• 1. Introduction: Theatrical Encounters.- 2. Neither with you nor without you: Performance and Philosophy in Beckett’s Non-relational Aesthetics.- 3. A Thousand Failures and A Thousand Inventions: Towards a Method for Performance Philosophy.- 4. Belacquobatics: Deleuze, Affect and Beckett’s Affective Athleticism.- 5. Belacquobatic-secrets: Deleuze and the Purgatorial Rebellion of the Beckettian Body.- 6. Pure and Theatrical Optical-Sound Situations: Automation and the Image in Beckett’s Play.- 7. A Crystal-Theatre: Suffering for Love.- 8. Conclusion.