Acknowledgments
Introduction. Virtual Empiricism:
The Revaluation of the Transcendental
Briefly Mapping Our Experimental Journey
1. Bergson’s Genealogy of Consciousness: Freedom and Pure Perception
The Immediate Data of Consciousness: Time and Free Will
Emerging Consciousness:The Role of the Body
From Psychology to Metaphysics: Pure Perception and Beyond
2. Introducing Memory: From the Psychological to the Virtual
Bergsonian Dualisms—Memory and the Brain: Which Survival?
Folding Over: The Psychological Is Also Necessarily Virtual
3. The Unconscious as Ontology of the Virtual
From Dualism to Difference
The Élan Vital or the Ontologization of Duration
Memory as Virtual Coexistence
Sense and Sensibility: Bergsonian Positivism
4. Between Bergson and Deleuze: The Method of Intuition as Transcendental/Virtual Empiricism
Absolute Movement and Intuition
Intuition and Superior Empiricism
5. Cinematic Thought: The Deleuzean Image and the Crystals of Time
Why the Cinema?
Toward the Crystal-Image: A Vision of the Genesis of Time
6. Proust and Thought: Death, Art, and the Adventures of the Involuntary
Death Is the Truth of Thought
How Might Death Be Put to Work?
Art as the Production of Essences
Conclusion. Bergson-Deleuze Encounters: Machinic Becomings and Virtual Materialsm
First Question: What Does Deleuze Find in Bergson?
Second Question: Why the Image?
Third Question: Why Read Deleuze after Bergson?
Fourth Question: Which Machinic Becomings?
Closing
Notes
References
Index