Conclusion: What Happened?

Abstract

This chapter reflects on how the study has approached the impossible and the unthinkable in performance, arguing that it has strived to preserve the alterity of it throughout its own philosophical investigations. It argues that the study’s method provides guidelines and provocations for future research in Performance Philosophy and that its concepts may be of use in performance theory and the field of Beckett studies. Finally, it argues that the encounter between Beckett and Deleuze asks us to attend to the impersonal nature of thought.