Bergson and the Metaphysics of Media
What is a medium? Why is there always a middle? Can media produce 'immediacy'? Henri Bergson recognized mediation as the central philosophical problem of modernity. This book traces his influence on the 'media philosophies' of Gilles Deleuze, Marshal
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Bergson and the Metaphysics of Media Stephen Crocker Memorial University of Newfoundland
© Stephen Crocker 2013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-1-137-32449-8 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries ISBN 978-1-349-45896-7 ISBN 978-1-137-32450-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137324504 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
In memory of James Bradley, teacher and friend Omne quod movetur ab alio movetur
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Contents
Introduction Any-Moment-Whatever: Elaborating Bergson’s Ideas
Part I 1 2 3 4
1
Medium as Means and Obstacle
Metaphysical Media: The Discrete and the Continuous in Deleuze and McLuhan
17
One or Many Planes: The Composition of Intervals in Painting and Film
45
Sounds Complicated: Audition as ‘Three-Dimensional Thought’
62
Noise Is the Presence of the Medium
70
Part II
Killing Time: Synchrony and Diachrony
5
Instrumental Reason and the War on Intervals
83
6
Distracted and Contemplative Time
94
7
Empty, Homogeneous Time/Any-Moment-Whatever
Part III
111
Man Falls Down: Unanswerable Situations
8
Compromise Formations: Bergson’s Vitalism
127
9
Unanswerable Situations
141
Conclusion: On Failure and Wonder
158
Notes
161
References
173
Index
181
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Introduction Any-Moment-Whatever: Elaborating Bergson’s Ideas
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