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Title

Cinq minutes: intimations of imminent virtuality

Author(s)

Tofts, Darren

Abstract

In 'Matter and Memory' Henri Bergson's discussion of the manifold of duration and memory sets the scene, we might say the mise en scene, of contemporary discussions of the virtual. Bergson describes the identity of memory as a residue of the past, 'a cloak of recollections' and at the same time 'a core of immediate perception'. In his study of Bergson Gilles Deleuze describes this manifold texture of memory as a 'virtual coexistence' and concludes that one of the most profound aspects of Bergsonism is the extrapolation of the theory of memory as a theory of the virtual. Speculative fiction, an unrecognized branch of philosophy also concerned with virtuality, offers insights to the metaphysical and ontological nuances of the affective implications of memory as virtuality.

Publication type

Essay

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology

Source

Australian Journal of Virtual Art, No. 1 (Sep 2011)

Publication year

2011

Keyword(s)

Bergson, Henri (1859-1941);  Blade Runner (1982);  Dick, Philip K. (1928-1982);  Virtuality;  Virtual art

Publisher

Australian Centre of Virtual Art

ISSN

1839-5481

Publisher URL

http://journal.acva.net.au/essay/cinq-minutes

Copyright

Journal copyright © 2011 ACVA. This article copyright © 2011 Darren Tofts. The Australian Journal of Virtual Art is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/). The published version of the paper is reproduced here in accordance with this policy.

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