DOI: 10.4231/z9hx-5b97
title: Cinema, Truth, and Time: The Falsifier: Lecture 15, 27 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 15, 27 March 1984, Deleuze first returns to key points: the Greek &lt;em&gt;n&ucirc;n&lt;/em&gt;, or the &ldquo;pure now&rdquo;; the late Neo-Platonists term &lt;em&gt;complicatio&lt;/em&gt; for all the intersecting degrees of power or copresence belonging to eternity (the &lt;em&gt;ai&ocirc;n&lt;/em&gt;). Deleuze argues that time will be the measure of intensive quantity and movement of the soul and sees a pure instant creating a synthesis between past and future and links this synthesis to a solemn fear of these forms of time throughout history. At the session&rsquo;s 90-minute mark, &Eacute;ric Alliez intervenes to discuss St. Augustine, and Alliez and Deleuze engage in dialogue about distinctions that St. Augustine developed in syntheses of time in contrast to the Neo-Platonists. After Deleuze&rsquo;s summary of three indirect images of time, he emphasizes the disturbance and crisis of truth with the powers of the false. Deleuze says the result for cinema after World War II is to reconstruct direct time-images, with Kant on deck for the next session, the philosopher who constructed the first time-image.&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 15, le 27 mars 1984, Deleuze revient d&rsquo;abord sur des points cl&eacute;s : le &lt;em&gt;n&ucirc;n&lt;/em&gt; grec, ou le &laquo; pur maintenant &raquo; ; les n&eacute;oplatoniciens tardifs appellent &lt;em&gt;complicatio&lt;/em&gt; tous les degr&eacute;s de pouvoir ou de copr&eacute;sence qui se croisent et qui appartiennent &agrave; l&rsquo;&eacute;ternit&eacute; (l&rsquo;&lt;em&gt;ai&ocirc;n&lt;/em&gt;). Deleuze soutient que le temps sera la mesure de la quantit&eacute; et du mouvement intensifs de l&rsquo;&acirc;me et voit un instant pur cr&eacute;er une synth&egrave;se entre le pass&eacute; et le futur et lie cette synth&egrave;se &agrave; une crainte solennelle de ces formes de temps &agrave; travers l&rsquo;histoire. &Agrave; la fin de la s&eacute;ance, &Eacute;ric Alliez intervient pour parler de saint Augustin, et Alliez et Deleuze engagent un dialogue sur les distinctions que saint Augustin a d&eacute;velopp&eacute;es dans les synth&egrave;ses du temps par opposition aux n&eacute;oplatoniciens. Apr&egrave;s le r&eacute;sum&eacute; de Deleuze sur trois images indirectes du temps, il souligne la perturbation et la crise de la v&eacute;rit&eacute; avec les pouvoirs du faux. Deleuze dit que le r&eacute;sultat pour le cin&eacute;ma apr&egrave;s la Seconde Guerre mondiale est de reconstruire des images temporelles directes, avec Kant sur le pont pour la prochaine s&eacute;ance, le philosophe qui a construit la premi&egrave;re image temporelle.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Lecture given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze at the University of Paris 8, 27 March 1984. This is lecture 15 of a 22-lecture seminar Deleuze taught between November 1983 and June 1984.