PoD#4: Allan James Thomas - "Where is the Past? Deleuze, Cinema and the Temporalisation of Difference"Allan James Thomas (RMIT University)
Building 9, Lvl 3, Room 6A
RMIT University
Melbourne
Australia
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"Where is the Past? Deleuze, Cinema and the Temporalisation of Difference"
Allan James Thomas (RMIT University)
Abstract:
Why does Gilles Deleuze write about the cinema? On the evidence of the Cinema books themselves, there can be no doubt of his own cinephelia – his love of and interest in it. But he is also a philosopher, and his love of cinema alone does not tell us why he approaches it as such. Even though we can discern in his exploration of films and filmmakers therein many of the philosophical themes and figures treated of across his career, this does not tell us why he seeks to explore them in cinematic terms. In this paper, I will try to answer this question by mapping out the relation between what Giovanna Borradori calls the ‘temporalisation of difference’ Deleuze effects in his early work on Bergson, and the explicit return to Bergson we find in the Cinema books. In particular, I’ll explore the tension between the implicit role of Bergson’s cinematographic illusion in that early temporalisation of difference, and Deleuze’s explicit treatment of the cinema as a correction of that illusion. What this tension reveals is a treatment of the cinema as a philosophical or metaphysical tool for the exploration of the relation between thought and being in fundamentally temporal terms.
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Allan James Thomas teaches cinema and media studies in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. His book, tentatively titled ‘Deleuze, Cinema and the Thought of the World’ is due to be published by Edinburgh University Press in early 2018.
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6PM – 7:30PM, Thursday 15th September 2016
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Building 9, Level 3, Room 6A
RMIT City Campus (cnr Bowen & Franklin)
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