Events

This chapter focuses on the ubiquitous computing intervenes in life, namely in negotiating a more complex understanding of temporal relations. It describes contemporary cinema as “the neuro-image”. The Final Cut may present a world were brain implanted cameras allow total recall of lives, reproducing it like a Borgesian map. Gilles Deleuze saw in cinema a particular mode of thinking that was close to both philosophy and to neuroscience. The neuro-image is part and parcel of a networked digital culture that operates with the logics of extended and complex narratives, networked software cultures, and database remixability. The chapter suggests that Deleuze’s cinema concepts can be seen in light of the syntheses of time developed in Difference and Repetition. Niklas Luhmann and Deleuze seem to agree that society has to “sequentialize predictions and actions into complex self-referential patterns”.