…know about Ireland? Ireland as a country existed in the 20th century to give birth to Joyce, I don't like Joyce, but Joyce and Beckett. They both had to move outside to do it. Look at Hollywood. Who gave in the 30s, 40s the best image of despair of…

…of execution. But what I also loved about Brother Michael Brooks was that he had what Kafka, he had what Chekhov, he had what Beckett had. He had a deep sense of the comic. He had a deep sense of incongruity. And of course, Brother Zizek has that.…

…I agree with all your names, but you didn't mention, and I would support you here, frankly, I am absolutely for Beckett, but I have problems with Joyce. Joyce works so much in this pretentious, arrogant, self-reflexivity. I don't like Finnegan's way. It's…

…problems with Joyce. Joyce works so much in this pretentious, arrogant, self-reflexivity. I don't like Finnegan's way. It's too pretentious. Beckett is the great guy. Beckett was the real hero. Under the occupation of France, You know, Beckett did not play…

…works so much in this pretentious, arrogant, self-reflexivity. I don't like Finnegan's way. It's too pretentious. Beckett is the great guy. Beckett was the real hero. Under the occupation of France, You know, Beckett did not play this game like Sartre, you…

…Finnegan's way. It's too pretentious. Beckett is the great guy. Beckett was the real hero. Under the occupation of France, You know, Beckett did not play this game like Sartre, you know. Here he is. Here's our brother. Here's our brother. Beckett is a…

…France, You know, Beckett did not play this game like Sartre, you know. Here he is. Here's our brother. Here's our brother. Beckett is a minimalist and Joyce is a maximalist, but there's no Becky without Joyce. That first grade essay on Vico, that first…

…Vico, that first grade essay on Vico. literary criticism is under the influence of Joyce, so they go hand in hand. But I prefer Beckett, but I prefer Chekhov even more than Beckett, my brother. I don't know where you go on this. Ah, but you know whom…

…is under the influence of Joyce, so they go hand in hand. But I prefer Beckett, but I prefer Chekhov even more than Beckett, my brother. I don't know where you go on this. Ah, but you know whom I prefer of Russian authors? he developed, although…

…do. He's the one. He's a great one now. You're right. He's the greatest one, yeah. Well, all right, since we mentioned Beckett, this is a good transition actually because both of you often invoke the famous line from Beckett's late novella Worst Word Ho,…

…especially when it comes to the nation's Black citizens, right? But you also invoked, I went back and listened, you also invoked Beckett when you spoke with Michael in April, and you noted that Beckett's favorite word was perhaps. So this brings me to my…

…failures of which, as you have both spoken to before, are in large part what brought us Trump to begin with. And yet, to invoke Beckett, one could perhaps argue that the left did fail better this time around than we did in 2016. So I guess I want to…

…in a certain way. It's almost Bergson like Ilan V. Tao. Certain kind of movement always already. Whereas I think for Beckett, when he says the tears always already are flowing, the domination already is there, even the perhaps itself is more Kierkegaardian…

…to jump in? Okay, then I will say, but one sentence, I promise. The best answer was given. I hope we are all Beckettians. Beckett, no? There is no duality here. One is shit, the other one is good. Joyce is bad, Beckett is good. And Beckett wrote…

…we are all Beckettians. Beckett, no? There is no duality here. One is shit, the other one is good. Joyce is bad, Beckett is good. And Beckett wrote something so wonderful, I don't know where. He said, one divides into itself. That's the perfect... You…

…Beckett, no? There is no duality here. One is shit, the other one is good. Joyce is bad, Beckett is good. And Beckett wrote something so wonderful, I don't know where. He said, one divides into itself. That's the perfect... You know, Hegel is not...…

…a distance. Almost all great writers did this. Look, Joyce wrote the greatest novel about Ireland. From Trieste and then Zurich. Beckett, he even changed his language and did it in French and so on. I think that even you mentioned Borges, Argentina.…

…imminent return of revolutions, but the exhaustion of the idea, or at least the failure of revolutions. But also to go back to Beckett, that you were, his new book is called The Incontinence of the Void, that we should be reordering. So if the revolution…

…woman is a total failure for Matias and that he needs to go through all these women and these failures in order to, as Beckett would say, fail better with his love at the end. So it's a romantic story. A very short remark, very important. I can…

…there is an evolution of a character, I hope at least. But if I may draw a megalomaniac comparison with my favorite... Sam Beckett play, is it non-I or not-I, you know? Not-I. Not-I, monologue. It appears just the same, but it's a very subtle play.…

…but the death itself of that God on the cross, and not knowing that Easter Sunday is coming. You know, the terrain of Samuel Beckett, the waiting for Godot and so forth. Now, if that's true, then we might then have to revise what you said about this…

…Wake is the most arrogant book. I have almost a globalist reaction to Finnegan's Wake. It would be publicly burned. But Samuel Beckett, unnameable. You know, who is he? The... The speaker is not even a human being. It's a kind of a strange partial…

…you know. And here I come to another of my favorite writings. There are three in the 20th century, if you ask me. Beckett, Andrei Platonov and Franz Kafka, of course, no? And Platonov saw the deadlock of this techgnosticism. So it's not as confused a…

…in the singularity and that it's the thing that eludes it? Why does it matter? And you give us the example of Beckett, Samuel Beckett. I wonder why he helps us. My favorite writer, incidentally. Because I think, again, that this dimension of failure is,…

…singularity and that it's the thing that eludes it? Why does it matter? And you give us the example of Beckett, Samuel Beckett. I wonder why he helps us. My favorite writer, incidentally. Because I think, again, that this dimension of failure is, is…

…with sexuality it's the same. It's how to organize your failure. And you know what? One of the most famous lines of Samuel Beckett, try again, fail again, fail better. Do you know that when he was young as a psychologist, Beckett, the real Beckett, was…

…most famous lines of Samuel Beckett, try again, fail again, fail better. Do you know that when he was young as a psychologist, Beckett, the real Beckett, was doing some work as helping adolescents in sexual troubles and so on. So I always try to imagine…

…of Samuel Beckett, try again, fail again, fail better. Do you know that when he was young as a psychologist, Beckett, the real Beckett, was doing some work as helping adolescents in sexual troubles and so on. So I always try to imagine how he got an…

…friends that we can talk like this and still be friends. And I can go pretty far here since we are talking today about Beckett. I think maybe I went just a little bit too far. You remember, he is now happily married, recently with a wife, Eve, who…

…went just a little bit too far. You remember, he is now happily married, recently with a wife, Eve, who is a specialist in Beckett. And, sorry, it's my nature. You know, it's like the Scorpio who bites the frog. I couldn't resist it. I told him, I…

…him, I know what your wife told you after you spent the first night together. You know what? The most famous line from Beckett. Try again, fail again, fail better. Sorry, that's the price of being associated to me. But... What I really want to say is…

…But, okay, let's now, in the remaining time, sorry, because I drag on, no? And I almost forget to, we didn't yet come to Beckett, no? No. But it's already one hour and I almost wanted to say maybe the title of this talk should have been a version…

…of course, Lenin is in Warsaw. That's why he's doing this here. So maybe I can say this title is like something like, you know, Beckett is in Warsaw, so I cannot mention him, but it's still the title. Now comes, if you allow me just a little bit, I…

…The best historical background, you still get it from the work of, again, one of my three big writers of 20th century, Beckett, Kafka, and Andrei Platonov, who described in detail their way of life and elaborated a kind of, again, materialist ontology of…

…It's Cartesian cogito. Beckett's model was this one. And I think this is maybe what will happen if we enter singularity. Beckett says somewhere... Descartes has this pure cogito, you don't know if it's a vision, hallucination, dream, then, fuck him, God…

…in this pure hallucination. And even at this level, I hope I will pronounce the name correctly, with cogito, no, in Beckett, the unnameable, has then two incarnations. I will pronounce it correctly, I don't know. Mahud and Worm. Mahud is this, like,…

…I would have said that here I even... disagree with those big poets or religious figures. For example, I was just rereading Beckett, and I found I'm a cheap guy. I put into Google Beckett important quotes, sayings to bluff. And one is always appearing…

…poets or religious figures. For example, I was just rereading Beckett, and I found I'm a cheap guy. I put into Google Beckett important quotes, sayings to bluff. And one is always appearing there, a quote which says something like... every word, speech, is…

…every word, speech, is just a stain on silence and so on, as if silence is what we are aiming at. No, what Beckett doesn't see is that this silence is constituted only by the failure of speech. There is no silence proper without speech. The silence…

…Oh, Joyce, you can read it for hundreds of years and so on and so on. That's why I hate Joyce and I prefer Beckett. But that's another story. I mean, I would very much like to go. I'm sorry. Okay. Left-wingers again. I'm not going to pretend I…

…I will try... Oh my God, the time is running. Okay, I will condense it. So at least that I will finish with the word Beckett or whatever. Thank you. Okay, sorry. Let me go on. Let me go on. Nonetheless, I will try to condense it. I got lost. Okay.…

…me, just seriously, the finale. I will try to be very brief. The great writer of this type of violent abstraction is Samuel Beckett. what Beckett does is, on the one hand, it's worth reading it. I mean, I'm really a partisan here. For me, I'm sorry…

…seriously, the finale. I will try to be very brief. The great writer of this type of violent abstraction is Samuel Beckett. what Beckett does is, on the one hand, it's worth reading it. I mean, I'm really a partisan here. For me, I'm sorry to disappoint…

…people will have to... And I know I'm going here against Lacan. Okay, but let me convince you what I like about Beckett. For a partisan of standard Marxist notion of concrete analysis... The idea is Beckett is very anti-Marxist. He always abstracts from a…

…convince you what I like about Beckett. For a partisan of standard Marxist notion of concrete analysis... The idea is Beckett is very anti-Marxist. He always abstracts from a concrete situation. But this abstraction is always inscribed into a concrete…

…the details? You know, okay, but let's not lose time. Let's be a little bit more serious. To disappoint you, today the topic is Beckett abstraction and so on. And if you want all that multiple or sex absolute, you get it on Wednesday. It will be a…

…have to do this unpleasant... Impolite gesture. I saw it now there. Okay. Now I will do second part and then Brecht. Sorry, Beckett, who is my real hero. You know, I developed it in a text, was it the one which was finally published by, digitally,…

…know, I developed it in a text, was it the one which was finally published by, digitally, by independents. I found in Beckett the most wonderful formula you can imagine. He said that something always ultimately divides into itself. I think this is the…

…that you can get the whole line of argumentation. So we don't have time for it now. Let me just quickly come to Beckett. Beckett is for me the great writer of abstraction, of this positive character of abstraction. Why? I recently read a wonderful book…

…you can get the whole line of argumentation. So we don't have time for it now. Let me just quickly come to Beckett. Beckett is for me the great writer of abstraction, of this positive character of abstraction. Why? I recently read a wonderful book on on…

…and so on, that the only language of equality that you get is image. And I think also great writers, okay, more Beckett than Joyce, experienced this to be, I claim, against a certain misreading of Martin Heidegger, you know, authentic, you must listen to…

…country, Your Muttersprache, your original and authentic, you must somehow betray it. I think one should write a doctor's thesis on why Beckett, to become Beckett, had to move from English. crucial. I always think that the best thing for a writer, at least…

…your original and authentic, you must somehow betray it. I think one should write a doctor's thesis on why Beckett, to become Beckett, had to move from English. crucial. I always think that the best thing for a writer, at least today, is to write…

…promotion of publicity and so on. In my new book which just came out, Incontinence of the Void, it's not obscene, it's Sam Beckett from whom I took this, Alenka Zupanchi in her wonderful book which is doing very well, What is Sex? And then... Mladen…

…not explain it to everyone, would know that I'm kidding. I was referring to, you know, one of the best known statements of Samuel Beckett. After you fail, no? Go on, try again, fail again, fail better. Okay, as a pure bad taste joke, I claim that I…

…Go on, try again, fail again, fail better. Okay, as a pure bad taste joke, I claim that I read a new biography of Beckett where it is proven that when he was young and unemployed in his 30s, he worked as a social psychologist, specialized in sexual…

…I thought it's an obvious bad taste, okay, maybe a bad joke, irony. No, somebody attacked me, you didn't verify it, you are lying, Beckett didn't say that, and so on. In what society are we living, I mean? You know what I mean? Okay, but let's drop…

…spreading out quality. And okay, if you have these two big modernist authors, on the one hand James Joyce, on the other hand Beckett, You know, that Joyce was always adding, he's exuberant. This is like a Slavoj style. I think a style is the style of…

…please, first. Okay, thank you. Thank you all for coming here. Yeah, I couldn't help noticing when you made this Joyce Beckett comparison that actually the title of Slavik's book nevertheless comes from Beckett. No, I don't know, just to say a couple…

…Yeah, I couldn't help noticing when you made this Joyce Beckett comparison that actually the title of Slavik's book nevertheless comes from Beckett. No, I don't know, just to say a couple of things to what you opened as a discussion, perhaps starting from…

…we have to learn a lot. It was a tragic twist. Maybe it was inevitable. But to finish, nonetheless, again with you, with Beckett, you know, like, the lesson with Stalinism is try again fail again fail better this is definitely not the lesson what we…

…back to Lenin of early Leninism is for me and seems for me one of the three mega guys of 20th century literature it's Beckett, not Joyce Joyce was laughing Samuel Beckett Kafka and Andrei Platonov he's mega and I think that the great interest of his to…

…me and seems for me one of the three mega guys of 20th century literature it's Beckett, not Joyce Joyce was laughing Samuel Beckett Kafka and Andrei Platonov he's mega and I think that the great interest of his to meet is that they already clearly see…

…will find may be more interesting doing a little bit of propaganda in this book. It has an obscene title, but it's from Beckett. Incontinence of the Void. You know that he said, late Beckett's play, a very tragic one, an old senile lady is dying, and…

…This exactly is the focus of my next book. Thank you. The incontinence of the void. It's not obscene. It's a quote from Samuel Beckett, where I try precisely to do what you indicated, and I agree this is crucial for me. Not to get involved just in…

…thinking? Because, you know, I also have another book in print now. It's an obscene title, Incontinence of the Void. Ah, it's Beckett, you know. In his well-said, well-thought, there is a dying old lady, and he mentions the term incontinent, void, and so…

…you know what the story is about, the premise of the series. Richard Kastler, best-selling detective writer, collaborates with Kate Beckett, a New York Police Department homicide detective, in solving various murder cases in New York City. Beckett is initially…

…collaborates with Kate Beckett, a New York Police Department homicide detective, in solving various murder cases in New York City. Beckett is initially infuriated at the thought of working with a writer, but the two, of course, soon start developing feelings…

…impossible to continue as one did before To now truly end, I want to quote just like a wonderfully fatalistic line by Samuel Beckett. At one point, he comes up with a, I think, quite comic description of a problem. I quote, It's because there is…

…the beginning over and over again are not doomed end of quote this is maybe Lenin at his Beckettian referring to Samuel Beckett best echoing the line from Beckett's worst word go try again fail again fail better Lenin's conclusion to begin from the…

…with refugees is not we pick up the good guys, you know, those who are almost like us. Look, they read Joyce, oh my God, and Beckett, and so on. No, what about those who didn't read it, and so on, and so on. That's why I also don't like, and this…

…term. My good friend Frank Ruda, the best maybe young German philosopher, recently got a new girlfriend who is a specialist in Beckett. And I told Frank Ruda, I know what your girlfriend told you after you spent the first night together. Try again, fail…

…Hegelian leap and You're saying that we shouldn't fantasize any radical, positive organizational strategies? No, I didn't say this. I said, like Beckett, we should do it, but we should be aware that it's open, that we don't know where we are going. Marx…

…arguably the greatest, for me at least, Russian writer of 20th century, Andrei Platonov. He's really, I think, together with Beckett, Kafka, Platonov, these are the three great ones. In his wonderful short stories from the 20s, sexuality is always presented…

…say this about radical intellectuals, that Joyce often wants to be too bright for his own good, you know? My hero is Beckett. Beckett who, you know, this mega, you know, like he wants to match Finnegan's Wake, all languages, everything, and it's, I…

…this about radical intellectuals, that Joyce often wants to be too bright for his own good, you know? My hero is Beckett. Beckett who, you know, this mega, you know, like he wants to match Finnegan's Wake, all languages, everything, and it's, I suspect,…

…think that the left is way too much in love with this poetry of failure. You know, we fail, it's like false reference to Beckett. We fail, but we fail better and better and so on. What we should focus on are the results left behind. our failures. In…