ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the concept of singularity, wrested from both 'good' and 'common' sense, that Gilles Deleuze is capable of giving the notion of the event the specific shape it adopts in his philosophy. According to Deleuze, the perception of any object is always surrounded by a cloud of virtual images. This 'cloud' fosters more or less extensive coexisting circuits, a swarm of singularities: form, color, smell, size, 'along which virtual images are distributed and around which they run'. This is how an actual particle emits and absorbs virtual ones of varying proximity and different order. An actual perception surrounds itself with a cloud of virtual images, distributed on increasingly remote, increasingly large, moving circuits, which both make and unmake each other such as: memories, images, fantasms of different orders. They are called virtual images or singularities because their speed or their slowness, their duration or their brevity subjects them to a principle of the unconscious.
