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Animetic Potentiality and
the Boundaries of the
NarrativeAn Attempt at Involving Bergson, Simondon and Deleuze
in Anime Studies
Alba G. Torrents
[email protected]
(Japan Foundation Fellowship / Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona
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1. Introduction: anime, narrativity and
temporality
Temporality in certain anime
Extra-narrative / narrative
Bergson (dure and virtuality), Simondon (individuation,
transduction and apeiron) and Deleuze (difference)
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1. Introduction: anime, narrativity and
temporality
Extra-narrative elements: the ones that resist absorption into
the narrative. (But they are not extra-narrative
elements per se!!)
Relation between narrativity and extra-narrative in connection
to temporality:
Narrativity: follow certain order, divisible in parts, closed
set, something of the order of the individual (already
interpreted)
Extra-narrative: defy-temporal logic of narrative, break the
closure of the narrative order.
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2. The philosophy of Bergson, Simondon and
Deleuze on potentiality and temporality
Dure
Virtual
Difference
Potentiality
Temporality
Individuation
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2.1. Bergson: Dure and Virtual
Dure
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2.1. Bergson: Dure and Virtual
Dure =
Heterogeneity in continuity
Qualitative multiplicity
Asymmetry
Production of novelty
Virtual =
Memory
That which is real and possible at once
Real possible
Opposed to actual (but not the real)
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2.2. Simondon: Individuation, apeiron
and potentiality
Ontogenesis
(phasic being)
Being as a permanent process of
problem-solving
Processes of individuation
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2.2. Simondon: Individuation, apeiron
and potentiality
Physic level
Vital level Psychic level
Collective level
Apeiron / Indetermination / Pre-individual
Process of transduction = Process of individuation
Potentiality
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2.3. Deleuze: difference
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2. The philosophy of Bergson, Simondon and
Deleuze on potentiality and temporality
Two different forms of temporality
Identity
Individuality
Abstract spatiality
Product-time
Creative process of self-differentation
Dure
Process-time
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3. Analysis on Revolutionary Girl Utena, Serial
Experiments Lain and Puella Magi Madoka
Magica
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3.1. Revolutionary Girl Utena: linear
temporality
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
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3.1. Revolutionary Girl Utena: circular
temporality
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3.1. Revolutionary Girl Utena: static
temporality
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3.1. Revolutionary Girl Utena: Time of
the promised revolution
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3.1. Revolutionary Girl Utena
Four different forms of temporality
Linear temporality
Circular temporality
Static form of temporality
Time of the promised revolution (potentiality / virtuality)
Product time
Process time
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3.1. Revolutionary Girl Utena
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3.1. Revolutionary Girl Utena
Simulacra of
the main story
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Extra-narrativity and
precariousness of the
narrativity
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3.1. Revolutionary Girl Utena
Revolution begins
(I promise Itll be a revolution)
I promised a revolution!
Revolution is done
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3.1. Revolutionary Girl Utena: This is
(not) the end of the world
No possibility for
identity
Pure event
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3.2. Serial experiments Lain
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3.3. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
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3.3. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Quotidian World Magical World
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3.3. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
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Conclusions
Philosophies of Bergson, Simondon and Deleuze
as the proper tools to decipher temporality in
anime.
Anime as Thinking
Devices
