The Brain Is the Screen: Interview with Gilles Deleuze on "The Time Image"
It is often heard said here and there that there will be no more theoretical progress in relation to dnema, like the echo of a pessimistic leitmotif. The publication of Gilles Deleuze fs second volume The Time Image (following The Movement Image, both published by Editions de Minuit) is certainly proof of the contrary. 2 If dnema, through its genres through the narrative fluxes or xvriting styles which evoke singular auteurs is the manifestation of a thought in movement its encounter with philosophy became then unavoidable. The considerable work carried out by Gilles Deleuze shows that the relations between thought and the dnematic art are rich with interactive shocks vibrations influences whether visible or subterranean: it is a matter of a shared necessity which is to account for life itself This second work like the first shows itself to be extraordinarily fertile for all those who love dnema and attempt to reflect on its history its ruptures or its auteurs. Apart from the spedfically philosophical work, which consists in produdng concepts which account for movement, this book also reveals a critical Deleuze, who reserves for each auteur a place and a spedfic aesthetic configuration, in function of key concepts: lights, spaces, times, signs. This interview is the fruit of a long conversation, between Cahiers and Gilles Deleuze, put together by Deleuze in a more synthetic, and thus denser form. Serge Toubiana