Cinema thinks. But cinema also creates worlds. It describes and transforms them. It produces lines of flight, yet also possibilities of reterritorialization and fabulation.
The urgency of our present times — this loss of the world — finds one of its most striking expressions in the two volumes Deleuze devoted to cinema. The possibility of reconstructing planes of a shared reality also depends on how we engage with that cinematic thought, which continues to operate today through digital audiovisual technologies that are shaping our societies.
To reflect on the contemporary uses of a thought that is created cinematically, it has been a joy for us - together with Stanislas de Courville, Cécile Sorin @cecileso093 , and Dork Zabunyan @dorkzabunyan - to organise the conference “Gilles Deleuze. Usages contemporains d’une pensée du cinéma”, which will take place in Paris, from November 4 to 7, 2025 at the @univparis8 , @inha_fr , @lafemis.paris - in association with @centrepompidou
Visual: @sandrinemartin_illustration
L’éternel retour n’est ni qualitatif ni extensif, il est intensif, purement intensif. C’est-à-dire : il se dit de la différence. Tel est le lien fondamental de l’éternel retour et de la volonté de puissance. L’un ne peut se dire que de l’autre. La volonté de puissance est le monde scintillant des métamorphoses, des intensités communicantes, des différences de différences, des souffles, insinuations et expirations : monde d’intensives intentionnalités, monde de simulacres ou de « mystères ».
