ABSTRACT
This chapter explores Gilles Deleuze’s inquiring into Chronos and Aiôn. It departs from the distinction made between Chronos and Aiôn in The Logic of Sense (1969) in order to understand the way Deleuze’s books on moving images, Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (1983) and Cinema 2: The Time-Image (1985), might have contributed to his philosophy of time. Thus, it relates Deleuze’s in-depth concerns on time and temporality in The Logic of Sense with his Cinema books by reviewing the link of Chronos (the arrow of linear time) with the moving-image and of Aiôn (circular time) with the time-image. Then, this chapter argues that while both the movement-image and the time-image create chronosigns (chronological time), only the cinematographic crystal-image creates cronosigns: that is, the crystal-image shows us Cronos, a non-chronological time that is Aiôn, and it designates a pure time.
