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French Philosopher Gilles Deleuze

Wednesday, September 14, 201612:30-1:30pmRoom 2339Faculty Administration Building

THE RHYTHM-IMAGESteven Shaviro, English, Professor

Steven Shaviro is the author of books on film and video (Post-Cinematic Affect; Melancholia, or, The Romantic Anti-Sublime); on science fiction (Connected, or What It Means to Live in the Network Society; No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism; Discognition), and on critical theory (Without Criteria; The Universe of Things).

Gilles Deleuze’s two-volume Cinema book pro-vides a typology of cinematic images. The first volume concerns what Deleuze calls the move-ment-image in traditional cinema: the way motion and action are central to films from cinema’s first half-century. The second volume concerns the time-image, as it is manifested in films from World War II up to the time that Deleuze was writing (the 1980s). In these films, time disengages from action and movement and becomes a new basis for cinematic form in its own right. My presenta-tion considers what has happened to cinematic forms post-Deleuze. My argument is that a new cinematic form is emerging today, as digital tech-nology becomes ubiquitous in audiovisual produc-tion, and as we move away from Foucault’s disci-plinary society to what Deleuze called the control society. These new conditions cry out for a third volume of Deleuze’s Cinema, one that he never lived to write. In the world of what I am calling the rhythm-image, we encounter new articulations of time and space, and new relations between sound and image.

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Professor Steven Shaviro

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