Stating this ambiguity of our research, we would like to come back to another important aspect of Deleuze's Time Crystal:
One of the key features of the mix of actual and virtual, real and memory is indiscernibility. This term, indiscernibility, refers to the state of being indistinguishable: the real and the imaginary become indistinguishable in a crystalline description - the crystal rewrites the relations between the forms of the True and the powers of the false, it fractures them into many facets and interweaves their emissions.
This indistinguishable remix of the real and the virtual is the key to understand what Deleuze means by a crystalline image. Like an image produced in a mirror, it always has two poles: actual and virtual. However, it is often difficult to decide what is an "actual" image and what is a "reflection". What this indiscernibility makes visible is the ceaseless fracturing or splitting of nonchronological time.
In the movies, there's often one classic scene connected
to museum sites: In the dark of the night the thief enters the secured
exhibition halls. He or she sneaks in and in order to make the laser beams
of the alarm system visible - blows some powder in the air. All of a sudden
the space is filled with an enormous structure of red lines... and now
it's possible to navigate in the imposed order of overwhelming structures.
Like what some activists in Gothenburg said: it only needs some smoke
and all of a sudden you see the hidden faces of capitalist liberal democracies,
a hidden face that is the everyday reality for marginalised groups in
society.
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