With time, things lose their harshness and asperity. They are seen differently, and sometimes vanish from view. Time’s shrinking of the little that remains is to be fully accepted; one knows that time is limited, yet it is vast and infinite. This is the whole paradox of life. Perhaps

– Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), The Great Wave at Kanagawa , from series 36 Views of Mount Fuji , 1823–1829 What do we know about the virtual? It comes to Deleuze via Bergson. It belongs to the third time of the synthesis. It belongs to the future and yet it is the

Following the traces of a previous thought: What do actors do? What do directors do? Actors are necessary, even if they are reduced to automata or to machines. But are directors necessary to the theatrical work? What about actor-managers, don’t they in the absence of directors do just

because of his dandyism, his heart’s aristocracy – Balthus on Pierre Jean Jouve, in Vanished Splendours, A Memoir: Balthus , as told to Alain Vircondelet, trans. Benjamin Ivry, Harper Collins, New York, 2002, p. 160 BLANCHES HANCHES Une joie souterraine est partie loin de moi Blanches hanches! je cours et recours

It has often been noted how a Brazilian makes a man or woman look like a child. See, for example, Bernardo Bertolucci’s underrated film The Dreamers (2003), in which a triadic sexual relationship, brother, sister, male friend, and its shifting emotional and erotic dynamics, explicitly provides the spectacle we

The children are versing one another. Understandable when you consider the competitions are advertised in the form A_______ versus C________ . It is a much more convenient and reasonable locution than A_______ is competing with B_______ and has the obvious virtue of being active rather than passive, as if, in the