Bergson, Henri

Bio Sketch

Henri Bergson (1859–1941) was a French philosopher whose work on duration (durée), memory, and perception profoundly shaped twentieth-century thought on time and consciousness. His account of "different rhythms of duration" and the cinematic nature of normal consciousness is a key reference for Virilio's picnoleptic theory of perception. This page is a stub and requires fuller treatment.

Key Works

• Time and Free Will (1889) — duration and the qualitative multiplicity of consciousness.
• Matter and Memory (1896) — perception, memory, and the body.
• Creative Evolution (1907) — the élan vital and the critique of mechanistic time.

Key Concepts

Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:

• Everyday Life — Bergson as a reference in the immanent/utopian tradition of everyday-life theory.
• Aesthetics of Disappearance — Virilio draws on Bergson's "different rhythms of duration" but radicalizes them through the "irregularity of the epileptic space."

Relevance to Geoffrey's Research

Bergson matters to Geoffrey's research as the philosophical source for the immanent/utopian tradition of everyday-life theory (with Nietzsche, Deleuze & Guattari, Hardt & Negri) and as a key reference for Virilio's account of duration and perception. His "cinematic" account of consciousness is the philosophical backdrop for the aesthetics of disappearance.

Source Support

Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:

• Notes on Digital Nesting (Goulthorpe 2002/2006) — a secondary invocation, not a direct ingestion: Goulthorpe's note 4 follows Bergson to "usefully separate geological from geometric form, where the geological manifests a temporal dimension, as if trapping time in its very materiality, sensed as such" (p. 136) — the distinction behind the shell's trapped "impulsion" and the "latent trauma" of formed matter (see forms-of-absence, temporality). Bergson's Creative Evolution (1907) is the background text; the page remains a stub and requires fuller treatment.