Becoming Béla Tarr’s Bêtes, or How to Stop Being Afraid of Ceasing to Be a Human Being

Authors

  • James Martell

Abstract

Against our common rush to understand the world in our own, human terms, Béla Tarr’s films give us the opportunity to come in touch with our own stupidity, and through it, with our madness and the becomings it opens up. This essay looks at the current state of the world (disdainful gesture, disgustedly) and with Terrian eyes, tries to question our speeds, and to see the bottomless abyss that Nietzsche, Deleuze, and others proposed to us as our only living escape

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Author Biography

James Martell

James Martell is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages at Lyon College, in Arkansas, USA. He is the co-editor, together with Arka Chattopadhyay, of Samuel Beckett and The Encounter of Philosophy and Literature (Roman Books, 2013). He has published articles on Derrida, Deleuze, Beckett, Freud, and others. His current monographic project is called Jacques Derrida and the Matricides of Modern Literature. He recently published a novel written in Spanish, called Mexiko (Abismos, 2016).

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Published

2021-11-01

How to Cite

Martell, J. (2021). Becoming Béla Tarr’s Bêtes, or How to Stop Being Afraid of Ceasing to Be a Human Being. Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 3(1), 59–81. Retrieved from https://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/66