The Theme of the Five Biscuits: Murphy, Foucault, and Beckett’s Critique of Neoliberalism
Beckett’s Murphy grew out of “Lightning Calculation”, a short story about biscuits and the tragic incommutability of preference. Beckett likely borrowed this rare Americanism from Thorstein Veblen, who uses it to describe the “neo-classical” economic subject, a “hedonistic … lightning calculator of...
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Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses
2019-10-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/DEF.WALKER.pdf |