A reference to Luigi Pirandello. –Trans.
Henri Bergson, “Memory of the Present and False Recognition,” in Key Writings (London: Continuum, 2002), 149.
Jean Baudrillard, The Illusion of the End (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994), 9.
Bergson, “Memory of the Present and False Recognition,” 155.
Karl Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia (London: Routledge, 1936), 235–36.
Bergson, “The Possible and the Real,” in Key Writings (London: Continuum, 2002), 230.
Bergson, “Memory of the Present and False Recognition,” 148.
Ibid., 150.
The future perfect verb tense is of some significance in both Bergson’s essay on the déjà vu and that concerning the possible. In “Le Souvenir du present et la fausse reconnaissance” (Revue Philosophique de la France et de I’Etranger, Dec. 1908: 561), he writes: “As we witness an event or participate in a conversation, there suddenly arises the conviction that we have already seen what we are seeing, already heard what we are hearing, and already said what is being said … in sum, we are reliving down to the last detail an instant of our own past life. The illusion is sometimes so strong that in each moment, as long as this illusion lasts, we believe ourselves to be at the point of predicting what is about to happen: how could we not know already, if we feel that soon we will know that we knew it?” (Italics added. This passage does not appear in the existing English translation in Key Writings. –Trans.)
Augustine, Confessions, Book XI, Chapter 20.
Alexandre Kojève, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980). In the text I focus exclusively on the long note in which he develops the discussion from the twelfth of his 1938–39 lectures at the École pratique des hautes études.
Baudrillard, The Illusion of the End, 27, 73.
Ibid., 138.
Ibid., 138.
Ibid., 135.
Ibid., 127.
Bergson, “Memory of the Present and False Recognition,” 155.
Nietzsche Reader, 137.
Translation in New German Critique 5 (1975): 27–58.
Bergson, “Memory of the Present and False Recognition,” 150.
This text is an edited excerpt from Paolo Virno’s book Déjà Vu and the End of History, translated by David Broder and published by Verso in February 2015. The book was first published in Italian as Il Recordo Del Presente by Bollati Boringhieri in 1999.