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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 13:33:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Inna Runova Semetsky <irs5-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: memory of the future 


On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Greg J. Seigworth wrote:
Isn't crystal of time the wonderful concept? I wonder if someone is
thinking of looking into it from the viewpoint of the light cone in
physics? inna
 
> 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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