"Time is crucial to Deleuze's ethics of philosophy and the
philosophical encounter with literature. And it is because cinema is
that medium that enables us to rethink time that cinema is at the heart
of our self-transformation. Our relation to time is ethical and
political precisely because it is our way of living time (or our
'duration') which explains the problems of politics: how it is that our
desire submits to its own repression?"
Claire Colebrook, Gilles Deleuze.