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Dork Zabunyan's 'Deleuze. Voir, parler, penser, au risque du cinéma'

publication · 2026-04-23

Dork Zabunyan's book 'Deleuze. Voir, parler, penser, au risque du cinéma' takes its title from a phrase by Gilles Deleuze, who once remarked about his own work 'L'Œil écoute': 'It's a bad title, but it doesn't matter.' The book's subtitle, 'Voir, parler, penser au risque du cinéma,' is described as a weighted but accurate title, drawing on the term 'risk' (risque) which is firmly ordered to three verbs—see, speak, think—presented in the infinitive as a program of 'variations' before cinema.

Key facts

  • Book by Dork Zabunyan titled 'Deleuze. Voir, parler, penser, au risque du cinéma'
  • Title references Gilles Deleuze's comment on his own work 'L'Œil écoute'
  • Deleuze said: 'It's a bad title, but it doesn't matter'
  • Subtitle uses the term 'risk' (risque) ordered to verbs see, speak, think
  • Published in artpress in March 2007
  • The book is a study of Deleuze's philosophy in relation to cinema
  • The title is described as 'lestée mais un titre juste' (weighted but accurate)
  • The infinitive verbs propose a program of 'variations' before cinema

Entities

Artists

  • Dork Zabunyan
  • Gilles Deleuze

Institutions

  • artpress

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