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Begin with characters who see in place of action. Trace how pure optical and sound situations alter the character-world relation.

This is the hinge between the two Cinema volumes: it revisits the closure of the movement-image and shows why new signs must appear.

Test whether action and psychological causality reattach recollection to the present.

Read the crystal as dynamic exchange. Deleuze distinguishes perfect, cracked, forming, and decaying crystals.

Compare the sheets of past in Citizen Kane with the multiple presents of Last Year at Marienbad: two forms of non-linearity produce distinct temporal structures.

Test whether the final tribunal enters the series of falsifiers; this determines the creative power of the false.

The chapter moves from classical faith that totality and shock automatically produce thought to modern cinema’s need to begin from the impossibility of thinking.

Read body and brain together: one begins from fatigue, waiting, and ceremony; the other from topological connections and informational landscapes.

Study how sound and image form distinct series and meet at an incommensurable boundary.

Return to the whole project: open taxonomy reserves generative space for images and signs yet to emerge.