Beckett's Unnamable as image of Singularity
example · literature: Samuel Beckett ·
retold in 3 talks
Žižek reads Beckett's novel The Unnamable, a confused self-conversation of an autistic, quasi-mad voice, as the true image of what Singularity would feel like: not collective divine awareness but blind, autistic machinery.
As told 2
“I read singularity as something that will effectively if it will be realized look like Sam Beckett's Unnamable”
“Beckett's dream was what we imagine a Cogito prior to finding reference or firm foundation in the big other. Cogito which remains in this pure hallucination.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Maxim Gorky1Terrence Deacon1Robert Sheckley1Jair Bolsonaro1Agon Hamza1Justin Trudeau1Georgi Plekhanov1Margaret Atwood1
alongside works
Every retelling 2
Žižek reads Beckett's novel The Unnamable, a confused self-conversation of an autistic, quasi-mad voice, as the true image of what Singularity would feel like: not collective divine awareness but blind, autistic machinery., illustrating Singularity,consciousness,digital consciousness critique
Beckett's Unnamable models a Cartesian Cogito prior to any grounding in the big Other, a pure hallucinatory voice, which Žižek uses to predict what collective Neuralink consciousness might feel like from within., illustrating singularity,Cogito,Lacanian subject,Neuralink