Erecting monuments to analogue

Colin Gardner

pp. 169-189

in: S. E. Wilmer, Audrone Žukauskaite (eds), Deleuze and Beckett, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

Abstract

As someone deeply conscious of the mystery of time as the basic mode of being, the whole concept of recording sound and images — and thus, in a sense, making time repeatable, stopping it so that one can actually relive past time — fascinated him; hence the play Krapp’s Last Tape was his direct response to discovering tape recording, when the BBC sent him a tape of his earliest radio play [i.e., All that Fall]. (Esslin, 1991, pp. 214–215)