15 years ago...

... 15 anos desde a morte de Gilles Deleuze (18 Janeiro 1925 – 4 Novembro 1995) ...



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(...) memory is not an actual image which forms after the object has been perceived, but a virtual image coexisting with the actual perception of the object. Memory is a virtual image contemporary with the actual object, its double, its ´mirror image´ (...) hence, there is coalescence and division, or rather oscillation, a perpetual exchange between the actual object and its virtual image: the virtual image never stops becoming actual. The virtual image absorbs all of a character´s actuality, at the same time as the actual character is no more than a virtuality. This perceptual exchange between the virtual and the actual is what defines a crystal; and it is on the plane of immanence that crystals appear. The actual and the virtual coexist, and enter into a tight circuit which we are continually retracing from one to the other. This is no longer a singularization, but an individuation as process, the actual and its virtual: no longer an actualization but a crystallization. Pure virtuality no longer has to actualize itself, since it is a strict correlative of the actual with which it forms the tightest circuit. It is not so much that one cannot assign the terms ´actual´ and ´virtual´ to distinct objects, but rather that the two are indistinguishable.

(pp. 150-151, Deleuze & Parnet - Dialogues II - publicado em 1977 na França, edição de 2007 em inglês)