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. > > > > > > ______________________________________________________ > > > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
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