ABSTRACT
Chronosigns are also noosigns and lectosigns, for the time-image is not only an image of time, but also a “thinking image” and a “readable image” (IT 35; 23), an image of thought and an image that must be read. Through the concept of the noosign Deleuze poses a series of questions: What is the relation between cinema and thought? How do images affect the mind, and how does the mind affect images? And for that matter, what is a mind and what is thought? And what does it mean to produce a “thinking image,” or to put “reflection into the image itself”? The concept of the lectosign for its part raises a number of questions: In what way must time-images be read as well as seen or heard? What is the cinematic relation between sight and sound, and what happens when in the readable image visual signs and audio signs become autonomous? What are the limits of sight and sound, and what relation might those limits have to one another? These are the questions we will examine in this chapter.
