"Realism" is one of the enduring theoretical problems of the cinema. This study aims to broaden the parameters of the term by focusing on an often overlooked strain of thought that flows throughout the work of a number of prominent and seemingly incongruous thinkers such as Bazin, Kracauer, Benjamin, Barthes, Buñuel, and others. Realism, I contend, is undergirded by something far more elusive a...

Gilles Deleuze has become a key reference for the recent debate on virtual technologies, as his conception of is widely used to argue reality virtuality. Nonetheless some scholars, among which Slavoj Žižek stands out, have warned about risks flattening Deleuzian concept tech debate. This paper aims show why two concepts do not overlap by explaining features that make it incompatible with media....

Esse ensaio procurará aproximar o pensamento de Gilles Deleuze e Walter Benjamin, autores comumente articulados em distintas correntes filosóficas. Para tanto, procuraremos pensar modo como apresenta uma crença imanente nesse mundo, plataforma para outra tradição crítica – iniciada com Espinosa continuada por Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Kafka, Antonin Artaud outros. Acreditando ser possível inse...

Alexander Galloway in his 2004 book Protocol highlights a moment from philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s 1990 interview with fellow philosopher Antonio Negri. Deleuze writes: “Each kind of society corresponds to a particular kind of machine – with simple mechanical machines corresponding to sovereign societies, thermodynamic machines to disciplinary societies, cybernetic machines and computers to con...

Gilles Deleuze, in his two books on film, Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image, proposes a revolutionary approach to film theory. Drawing on Deleuze's own philosophy of repetition and difference and the work of Henri Bergson, the Cinema books extend these theories to foreground those aspects that are most essential to the medium: that film unfolds in time, and is comprised ...

We present the first known solution to the original supertask, the Thomson Lamp Paradox. Supertasks, or infinite operations, form an integral part of the emerging study of hypercomputation (computation in excess of classical Turing machine capabilities) and are of philosophical interest for the paradoxes they engender. We also offer preliminary resources for classifying computational complexity...