An expressive dialogue between Deleuze's philosophical writings on cinema and Beckett's innovative film and television work, the book explores the relationship between the birth of the event itself a simultaneous invention and erasure - and Beckett's attempts to create an incommensurable space within the interstices of language as a (W)hole.

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COLIN GARDNER is Professor of Critical Theory and Integrative Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, where he teaches in the departments of Art, Film & Media Studies, Comparative Literature and the History of Art & Architecture. He is the author of critical studies on Joseph Losey and Karel Reisz.

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Acknowledgements List of Plates List of Figures Introduction: Intuition/Image/Event: 'Beckett's Peephole' as Audio-Visual Rhizome Thinking the Unthinkable: Time, Cinema and the Incommensurable Beyond Percept and Affect: Beckett's Film (1964) and Non-Human Becoming From 'Dialoghorrhea' to Mental-Image: Comédie (1966), Not I (1977) & What Where (1986) Matter and Memory: The Image as Impersonal Process in Eh Joe (1966), Ghost Trio (1977), and but the clouds' (1977) How to Build a Desiring Machine: Quadrat I + II (1981) Video-body, Video-brain: Nacht und Träume (1983) as Tele-Visual Event Conclusion: The Incommensurable Unnameable: Beckett, Deleuze and the Birth of the Event Bibliography Notes Index