Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 20:36:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Greg J. Seigworth" <gseigwor-AT-marauder.millersv.edu>
Subject: Re: memory of the future 



Maybe you are remembering (funny, that word) the 'afterword' to Deleuze's
_Bergsonism_ where Deleuze writes in part: "a memory is not constituted
after present perception, but is strictly contemporaneous with it, since
at each instant duration divides into two simultaneous tendencies, one
which goes toward the future and the other falls back into the past"
(p.118).  Of course, this is pretty big [huge!] theme in Deleuze and it
appears *virtually* (pun intended) everywhere: earlier in the Bergson
book, toward the beginning and at the very end of _D&R_, in the Cinema
books [esp book2's 'crystals of time'], in the 'becoming' chapter of
_ATP_, at the conclusion of the _Foucault_ book, _Proust and Signs_ [like
the 'secondary role of memory' & 'antilogos' chapters], punctuating the
Leibniz book [see the wonderful passages at the bottom of p.116/top of 117
on tendency and 'monads of the third species' or Leibniz & Bergson:
movement as it happens on pp.72-73], etc etc.  On second thought, forget
theme: call it a refrain.  Besides Bergson's _Matter and Memory_, see his
_Mind-Energy_ for 'How Memory is Formed?' D.N. Rodowick's conclusion to
_Deleuze's Time-Machine_ entitled "The Memory of Resistance" (more or less
identical to his essay in the Deleuze issue of summer 1997 South Atlantic
Quarterly) hums some of this refrain too.  I like Peter Canning's "Crack
of Time ..." in Deleuze and Theatre of Philosophy too.  Unfortunately,
only time to point at the moment.  (And it is, after all, Friday night.)

always somewhere between remembrane and hypermnesia and paramnesia ...

Greg



On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Inna Runova Semetsky wrote:

> Thks. Does it mean Deleuze repeats it in Bergsonism? Do not have this bk
> here.
> Inna
> 
> On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Charles Gavette wrote:
> 
> > Bergson's "Matter and Memory" contains references to memory of the 
> > future, don't remember just where.
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