EXCERPT MARK FISHER: A friendly disagreement with Shane: For me, Exercise is strikingly lacking in the tragic. I do see an affinity with Beckett, a strong affinity, but for me that’s partly to do with the purgatorial, which this piece captures, rather than any resolution, the kind of release you might get through tragedy—the possibility of catharsis. One of the things I take from this work is the eerie purgatory of drive—a kind of inexhaustibility, a repetition, the fact that there is nowhere to go. So the model of this for me would be not tragedy so much as Sisyphean repetition…