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Book Review: Claudio E. Benzecry, The Opera Fanatic: Ethnography of an Obsession

utilizes the mathematics of dynamical systems theory to show how differential variables reflect the complexities of life. Coleman’s method serves as a broad conceptual guide but nevertheless entails certain limitations. Various mathematical concepts are not brought together with the aid of a coherent mathematical structure. If Deleuze utilizes the mathematical notion of a vector space to describe the internal relations of a film and refers to the film as ‘functionalism’, a mathematical formalism, then can one insist that his use of the mathematical notion of a set is somehow other than that, especially as Deleuze’s use of the concept of a set conforms to its mathematical use? Overall, one might be left wondering: why does Deleuze’s theory of the cinema use mathematical concepts and how do the various conceptual elements fit together to constitute that mathematical structure? Moreover, it is difficult to understand how two apparently incommensurate types of image, the movement-image and the time-image, are inseparable when one describes the representational and chronological time of action and the other describes the changes of quality produced when the image is no longer representational but purely optical, bypassing representation. And indeed, if it is the case, as Deleuze and Guattari have stated, that people desire their own enslavement so that, in the end, all notions of truth end up being false, then what can cinema possibly to do counteract this in an ethical manner, since its truth would have to be equally false, equally enslaving? Deleuze’s cinema books seem to be like the vector space that he uses to describe the film image. Their many trajectories and elements are difficult to organize. It may be that the movement-image and the time-image are actually his attempt to provide some overall organization for these systems. Coleman has set out the key concepts at work but the rules governing those concepts await further articulation.