ABSTRACT

In an interview Samuel Beckett dismisses man as a ‘non-knower’ and a ‘non-canner’, a being that has lost its reign of cognitive agency. By so doing, Beckett not only defies the Heideggerian anthropocentric dictum of ‘Man alone exists. Rocks are, but they do not exist’, but also suggests a new reality wherein the subject is no longer the agent of meaning-making. Graham Harman's Object-Oriented Ontology introduces an uncanny way for the object to not just exist but to confirm the ways in which it independently performs the act of existence. This article reads Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape as the artist's prophetic caveat vis-à-vis the demise of anthropocentrism, inviting the audience to imagine an object-oriented reality. By drawing on OOO and Tool-Being, this essay examines the preexisting inter-reality of objects in Krapp's Last Tape known as ‘the invisible realm’ by tapping into their autonomous, and yet relation-oriented existence. The autonomy of the object that agitates the subject's cognitive balancewill be examined by exploring the interdependent struggle between the ‘handiness of objects’ known as zuhandenheit, and their ‘ontic presence’, vorhandenheit, and the ways in which an ontic reality of, for instance, a tape-recorder and a collection of tapes could reaffirm Krapp's ontological plasticity.

摘要

在一次采访中，塞缪尔·贝克特 (Samuel Beckett) 将人斥为“无知者”和“非罐头者”，是一种失去了认知能力的存在。通过这样做，贝克特不仅违背了海德格尔的“只有人存在”的人类中心主义格言。岩石存在，但它们不存在”，但也暗示了一个新的现实，在这个现实中，主体不再是意义创造的代理人。Graham Harman 的面向对象本体论为对象引入了一种不可思议的方式，它不仅可以存在，而且可以确认它独立执行存在行为的方式。这篇文章读贝克特的克拉普的最后一盘磁带作为艺术家对人类中心主义消亡的预言性警告，邀请观众想象一个面向对象的现实。通过借鉴面向对象的本体论和工具存在，本文通过挖掘对象自主但面向关系的存在，检验了克拉普最后一盘磁带中被称为“无形领域”的对象预先存在的交互现实。将通过探索被称为zuhandenheit的“对象的便利性”与它们的“本体存在”、vorhandenheit之间相互依存的斗争来检查搅动主体认知平衡的对象的自主性，以及本体现实的方式，例如，一台录音机和一组磁带可以重申克拉普的本体论可塑性。