Deleuze, Beckett and the Image

What is it about?

My paper looks at Deleuze's essay, 'The Exhausted', to give a definition of the 'image'. I argue that this has less to do with any particular image employed by Beckett and more with another Deleuzian concept, the 'virtual'. The images produced by Beckett say something about philosophy, specifically about how thought comes to being.

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Why is it important?

The Deleuzian image has been variously and extensively interpreted, either in relation to the work of Henri Bergson, or the paintings of Francis Bacon. The link I make here between the image and the virtual is, as far as I know, unique. The essay also brings together many secondary sources and different readings of 'The Exhausted'.