The Brain Is the Screen: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Cinema by Gregory Flaxman
The Brain Is the Screen: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Cinema by Gregory Flaxman
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (February 17, 2000) | ISBN: 0816634467 | Pages: 344 | PDF | 20.14 MB
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (February 17, 2000) | ISBN: 0816634467 | Pages: 344 | PDF | 20.14 MB
In The Movement-Image, the first of his two volumes on cinema and able visibility: "The essence of a thing never appears at the outset, but in the middle, in the course of its development, when its strength is assured." Beyond the context of cinematographic evolution, Deleuze's claim seems to encompass its own writing, reflecting (or pre-flecting) an intuition about the fate of his books. "When a thing is considered in terms of its beginning," Deleuze once wrote with Felix Guattari, "a thing is always poorly judged."