A very personal essay that provides a clear introduction to Gilles Deleuze's thinking through his relationship with cinema, seen as a field of experimentation (existential, conceptual and aesthetic) to resist death, disaster and the stupefaction produced by the “modern fact”.
A PhD in philosophy from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Aline Wiame is a lecturer and researcher in arts and philosophy at the Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. At the crossroads of contemporary philosophy and ecological humanities, her research aims to develop an aesthetic of resistance to sideration.