Bergson and the Metaphysics of Media

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Introduction

Any-Moment-Whatever: Elaborating Bergson’s Ideas 1

Part I Medium as Means and Obstacle

1 Metaphysical Media: The Discrete and the

Continuous in Deleuze and McLuhan 17

2 One or Many Planes: The Composition of Intervals in Painting and Film 45

3 Sounds Complicated: Audition as ‘Three-Dimensional Thought’ 62

4 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 111

Part III 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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