DOI: 10.4231/j1gm-9k92
title: Cinema, Truth, and Time: The Falsifier: Lecture 13, 13 March 1984

description: &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Deleuze Seminars&lt;/em&gt; is a collection of audio recordings, transcriptions, and English translations of, and supplemental materials from, the lectures French philosopher Gilles Deleuze gave during his career at the University of Paris 8.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&ldquo;Cinema, Truth, and Time: The Falsifier&rdquo; was a 22-lecture seminar given from November 1983 to June 1984. This seminar, the third of four consecutive seminars Deleuze gave on cinema, shifts focus from the movement-image to the time-image. In these lectures, Deleuze continues to elaborate his theory of cinema through various theoretical and aesthetic frames including: Ancient Greek philosophy; Nietzsche&rsquo;s reconsideration of the concept of truth; principles of formal logic; literature; the time-image as crystallization; and the filmmakers he thinks are particularly influential in creating the time-image. As a precursor to the publication of Deleuze&rsquo;s second of two volumes on cinema, &lt;em&gt;Cinema 2: The Time-Image&lt;/em&gt; (1985), this seminar is a valuable resource to researchers interested in Deleuze&rsquo;s film theory, as well as his larger philosophical oeuvre.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In session 13, 13 March 1984, after a review of four key points of distinction between Plato and Plotinus and their eras, Deleuze addresses the basic problem: what is the nature of the movement of the soul as an intensive movement? Arguing that time is inseparable from a collapse (&lt;em&gt;chute&lt;/em&gt;) of the soul, Deleuze links this to understanding the shift of light that falls or collapses (in several senses). Drawing on Bergson&rsquo;s comments on Plotinus, Deleuze notes that in the intensive quantity, each unit is actual and encompasses a virtual multiplicity, in a spiral fashion. With the focal problem being how to reconcile an ideal collapse with a real collapse, Deleuze returns to questions of powers. Concluding that the intensive movement of the soul is an aggregate, Deleuze proposed for the next session to comment on Kantian innovation in contrast to Neo-Platonism and intensive movement.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This dataset includes: the complete French transcription and English translation of the recorded lecture in Open Document Text (odt) format, the complete recording in mp3 format, and the original Paris 8 French transcript.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Les S&eacute;minaires de Deleuze&lt;/em&gt; sont une collection d&#39;enregistrements audio, de transcriptions et de traductions en anglais et de documents compl&eacute;mentaires des conf&eacute;rences que le philosophe fran&ccedil;ais Gilles Deleuze a donn&eacute; lors de sa carri&egrave;re &agrave; l&#39;Universit&eacute; de Paris 8.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&laquo;Cin&eacute;ma, v&eacute;rit&eacute; et temps: le faussaire&raquo; &eacute;tait un s&eacute;minaire de 22 conf&eacute;rences donn&eacute; de novembre 1983 &agrave; juin 1984. En tant que pr&eacute;curseur de la publication du deuxi&egrave;me de deux volumes de Deleuze sur le cin&eacute;ma, &lt;em&gt;Cin&eacute;ma II. L&#39;Image-temps&lt;/em&gt; (1985), ce s&eacute;minaire est une ressource pr&eacute;cieuse pour les chercheurs int&eacute;ress&eacute;s par la th&eacute;orie du film de Deleuze, ainsi que sa plus grande &oelig;uvre philosophique.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Lors de la s&eacute;ance 13, le 13 mars 1984, apr&egrave;s avoir pass&eacute; en revue quatre points cl&eacute;s de distinction entre Platon et Plotin et leurs &eacute;poques, Deleuze aborde le probl&egrave;me fondamental : quelle est la nature du mouvement de l&rsquo;&acirc;me en tant que mouvement intensif ? En soutenant que le temps est indissociable d&rsquo;un effondrement (chute) de l&rsquo;&acirc;me, Deleuze relie cela &agrave; la compr&eacute;hension du d&eacute;placement de la lumi&egrave;re qui tombe ou s&rsquo;effondre (dans plusieurs sens). S&rsquo;appuyant sur les commentaires de Bergson sur Plotin, Deleuze note que dans la quantit&eacute; intensive, chaque unit&eacute; est r&eacute;elle et englobe une multiplicit&eacute; virtuelle, de fa&ccedil;on spirale. Le probl&egrave;me central &eacute;tant de savoir comment concilier un effondrement id&eacute;al avec un effondrement r&eacute;el, Deleuze revient aux questions de puissances. Concluant que le mouvement intensif de l&rsquo;&acirc;me est un agr&eacute;gat, Deleuze propose pour la s&eacute;ance suivante de commenter l&rsquo;innovation kantienne en contraste avec le n&eacute;oplatonisme et le mouvement intensif.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Lecture given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze at the University of Paris 8, 13 March 1984. This is lecture 13 of a 22-lecture seminar Deleuze taught between November 1983 and June 1984.