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Bergson, Deleuze & Cinema (to be contd.)

Bergson, Deleuze & Cinema (to be contd.)

Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time CINEMATIC TIME In their introduction to Henri Bergson: Key Writings, Bloomsbury 2021, John Ó Maoilearca and Keith Ansell Pearson offer in answer to Bergson’s solution to Zeno’s paradoxes Bertrand Russell’s own: A cinematograph in which there are an infinite number

freedom, distraction, the interval & emotion

freedom, distraction, the interval & emotion

On page 29 of (Andrew Goffey's translation, Minnesota 2018, of) David Lapoujade's Powers of Time: Versions of Bergson (French: Puissances du temps, 2010) we read: The free act is the integral of the whole history of the person—the integral of its sentiments, its thoughts, and

Minus workshop 7, part 1: naturalism / gesture

Minus workshop 7, part 1: naturalism / gesture

The following was written when I was without power and what goes by the term connectivity—without power I had no easy access to water but could at least heat what I carried in pots from the smaller of our two tanks that collect rainwater from the roof—because a

Thus, the AI on embodied perception in Minus Theatre

Thus, the AI on embodied perception in Minus Theatre

Prompted to consider Minus workshop 4, part 1: embodying emotion a working out in practice of the themes of actual perception in duration, emotional association and virtual imagination, against habits of recognition, conditioned response and representation (theatre, according to Peter Hallward, being the art of representation par excellence) ChatGPT 5

human virtual multiplicity and AI’s singular expectancy

human virtual multiplicity and AI’s singular expectancy

Marc Anton recently posted on facebook that most of its users couldn't care less what is said in criticism of AI such that he doubts any amount of technical or philosophical demystification is going to change perception or behaviour. In "Never mind the botlickers, ‘AI’ is just

a tree imagines it's a tree

a tree imagines it's a tree

What was yesterday fanciful today seems obvious. The tree imagines it's a tree. It doesn't only imagine it but is in . . . I would say 'process,' the process of becoming a tree, but that processes have durations, even when they are open processes, which are

"We are allowing the proliferation of a technology which will not destroy humanity but will destroy its thought."

"We are allowing the proliferation of a technology which will not destroy humanity but will destroy its thought."

Everything I've written about AI so far is all wrong. It's all metaphors. From the start, the self-portrait, I was trying to find the perception in which the AI works, the perception of which it is the technical embodiment. And therefore answer the problem of AI,