Fabulous: Remarks on scenarism, simulations, and scenarios

2021 ◽  
pp. 146349962110334
Author(s):  
James D Faubion
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Anticipatory Governance ◽  
The Future

In “Governing the Future,” Limor Samimian-Darash does much to illuminate scenarism and the divergence between the simulations and the scenarios that constitute the chief apparatuses of anticipatory governance. She renders both of them fabulations, drawing the concept as well as the divergence between simulations and scenarios from the epistemological and ontological precedents that Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze have set. Her renderings are compelling, but leave many epistemological and ontological issues unresolved. I address three of these issues. First, it has to do with what sort of concept scenarism might be. Second, it has to do with the poetics of simulations and scenarios. Third, it has to do with the virtuality or actuality of simulations and scenarios, in their planning as in their enactments.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Germana
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Feedback Loops ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
The Future ◽  
Lower Frequencies

This introductory chapter traces the origins of Ralph Ellison’s philosophy of temporality, and illustrates how Ellison’s synthesis of the ideas of Henri Bergson and Friedrich Nietzsche precedes, and in many ways prefigures, the work of Gilles Deleuze. It also demonstrates how Ellison’s Bergsonian critique of spatialized time—a coercive form of temporality that subtends progressive history—anticipates contemporary post-Deleuzian elucidations of the reciprocal relationship between temporality and subjectivity. By attuning his readers to intensities implicit in the present, or the dynamism inherent in what Bergson called duration, Ellison affirms the open-endedness of the future while critiquing all forms of determinism. And by treating race as a matter of time, Ellison shows how the feedback loops by which a racist society chaotically reproduces itself can be destabilized by troubling the coercive temporality with which they are linked “on the lower frequencies” of our immanent existence.

Artistic Challenges within Control Societies: Big Data and Democratic Resistance

MedienJournal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Jagodzinski
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Data Archive ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

This paper will first briefly map out the shift from disciplinary to control societies (what I call designer capitalism, the idea of control comes from Gilles Deleuze) in relation to surveillance and mediation of life through screen cultures. The paper then shifts to the issues of digitalization in relation to big data that have the danger of continuing to close off life as zoë, that is life that is creative rather than captured via attention technologies through marketing techniques and surveillance. The last part of this paper then develops the way artists are able to resist the big data archive by turning the data in on itself to offer viewers and participants a glimpse of the current state of manipulating desire and maintaining copy right in order to keep the future closed rather than being potentially open.

Imagem, memória e informação: o bergsonismo na ciência da informação

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Solange Puntel Mostafa ◽  
Miriam Paula Manini
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Henri Bergson

O artigo discorre sobre algumas teses de Henri Bergson em Matéria e Memória, como as diferenças de grau entre percepção e matéria, bem como as diferenças de natureza entre lembranças psicológicas e lembranças virtuais. A seguir, são apreciados os conceitos filosóficos de Gilles Deleuze sobre as imagens cinematográficas como Imagem-Movimento e Imagem-Tempo. Além disso, apresenta as reflexões de Mauricio Lissovsky acerca das imagens fotográficas e sua proximidade com Deleuze na busca por uma fundação do tempo no instante fotográfico, ilustrado com as fotografias de Cartier-Bresson. Compara os planos filosófico e científico com exemplos de indexação fotográfica, propostos no plano científico da Ciência da Informação, não para distinguir os diferentes planos ou contrastá-los em oposição, mas para instigar pensamentos e fazer pensar vindouras criações conceituais (filosóficas) para o ato da documentação fotográfica ou fílmica. Se a Ciência da Informação se beneficiar de tal filosofia, irá atualizar acontecimentos-conceitos em seu plano referencial.Palavras-chave: Imagem-movimento. Imagem-tempo. Indexação de fotografias.Link: https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/rca/article/view/10633

Ralph Ellison, Temporal Technologist

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Germana
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Ralph Ellison ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Racial History ◽  
The Face

Ralph Ellison, Temporal Technologist examines Ralph Ellison’s body of work as an extended and ever-evolving expression of the author’s philosophy of temporality—a philosophy synthesized from the writings of Henri Bergson and Friedrich Nietzsche that anticipates the work of Gilles Deleuze. Taking the view that time is a multiplicity of dynamic processes, rather than a static container for the events of our lives, and an integral force of becoming, rather than a linear groove in which events take place, Ellison articulates a theory of temporality and social change throughout his corpus that flies in the face of all forms of linear causality and historical determinism. Integral to this theory is Ellison’s observation that the social, cultural, and legal processes constitutive of racial formation are embedded in static temporalities reiterated by historians and sociologists. In other words, Ellison’s critique of US racial history is, at bottom, a matter of time. This book reveals how, in his fiction, criticism, and photography, Ellison reclaims technologies through which static time and linear history are formalized in order to reveal intensities implicit in the present that, if actualized, could help us achieve Nietzsche’s goal of acting un-historically. The result is a wholesale reinterpretation of Ellison’s oeuvre, as well as an extension of Ellison’s ideas about the dynamism of becoming and the open-endedness of the future. It, like Ellison’s texts, affirms the chaos of possibility lurking beneath the patterns of living we mistake for enduring certainties.

scholarly journals Cinema hipermaterialista: Bergson, Deleuze e a virtualização da matéria nos filmes de Louis Lumière

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (45) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Marcelo Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Henri Bergson

O objetivo deste artigo é promover uma leitura materialista de algumas das primeiras obras de Louis Lumière, considerando o caráter transicional destes filmes entre a matéria e o cinema. Recorreremos a dois autores que não costumam embasar estudos sobre os primeiros filmes do cinema: Henri Bergson, autor de Matéria e memória, cujo primeiro capítulo retomaremos explícita ou implicitamente durante todo o percurso, e Gilles Deleuze, do qual tomaremos alguns conceitos oriundos dos livros A imagem-movimento e A imagem-tempo. Acreditamos ter encontrado no estatuto de “imagem-perceptual” a inclinação materialista das imagens de Lumière, nas quais identificamos a extensão do universo material enquanto virtualização da matéria.

scholarly journals ALGUMAS DIMENSÕES DA "DIFERENÇA": O ITINERÁRIO DE GILLES DELEUZE NO ARTIGO "A CONCEPÇÃO DA DIFERENÇA EM BERGSON"

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (141) ◽  
pp. 705-722
Author(s):  
Flávio Luiz Freitas
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Henri Bergson

RESUMO O objetivo do presente trabalho consiste em explicitar o itinerário ou linha argumentativa de Gilles Deleuze no artigo intitulado "A concepção da diferença em Bergson", de 1954. Postula-se que nesse trabalho de 1954, Deleuze exponha a noção de 'diferença', que está presente na obra de Henri Bergson, por meio da relação entre três dimensões: metodológica, cosmológica e ontológica. Para tanto, caracteriza-se o conjunto do pensamento de Deleuze em relação à História da Filosofia. Em seguida, identifica-se o percurso das pesquisas de Deleuze sobre a obra de Bergson no contexto de sua versão para a História da Filosofia. Por fim, explicita-se o itinerário de Deleuze no artigo de 1954: "A concepção da diferença em Bergson".

scholarly journals Being Watched Watching Watchers Watch: Determining the Digitized Future While Profitably Modulating Preemption (at the Airport)

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 167-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew P. Tiessen
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Habeas Corpus ◽  
Social Conventions ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Future ◽  
Scanned Images ◽  
Naked Body ◽  
Suitable Expression ◽  
Visual Apparatus

Gilles Deleuze once wrote in “Postscript on the Societies of Control” (1992) that in the future (our present) our societies would be controlled or “disciplined” using subtly unobtrusive and strategically applied forms of “modulation.” That is, the rigid physical enclosures of Foucault’s disciplinary society would inevitably yield to more flexible, immaterial, and imperceptible forms of modulation that continually respond and adapt to life’s unpredictability. In this paper I describe how the use of naked body scanners at today’s airport is a most suitable expression of this dematerialized form of discipline, seeming at the same moment to both threaten and protect privacy, to be both non-intrusive and invasive, to both prepare for and determine seemingly unknowable but inevitable futures.   The flying public, meanwhile, is caught in the confusing middle, not knowing what to believe. They find themselves trapped in an undefined surveillance grid that both threatens and protects their freedoms. Will the scanners see through clothing and catch underwear-bombs, or won’t they? Will security agents scan, save, and distribute their naked images or won’t they? The public is left with questions rather than answers. This whole (visual) apparatus which was designed to create clarity and transparency seems opaque.   I suggest, then, that the opacity both of the issues at stake as well as of the scanned images of our naked bodies, confounds our categories and challenges long taken for granted social conventions about, for example, habeas corpus, privacy, security, the present, the future, potentiality, etc. Appearances, it seems, are still deceiving – even if what’s being made to appear are high-resolution scans of our naked bodies.  

scholarly journals Ser e Estar professor em modos de fabular

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Ramos Nunes ◽  
Elaine Schmidlin
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Henri Bergson

Este texto problematiza a relação entre ser e estar professor em uma escrita, pautada na fabulação, que pode vir a contribuir com a formação docente em Artes Visuais, compreendida não como a representação de um ideal, mas como uma diferença. Como referência teórica, o trabalho pauta-se na faculdade fabuladora, retomada de Henri Bergson por Gilles Deleuze, de modo a potencializar a criação entre arte e vida, uma vez que abre no real a possibilidade do acontecimento — que se apresenta não como profundidade a ser alcançada, mas como superfície —, em que pode vir a emergir variáveis intensivas de um pensamento sem imagens naquela formação.

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