Notes from ‘Difference and Repetition: On Guy Debord’s Films’ by Giorgio Agamben

“-There are two transcendental conditions of montage: repetition and stoppage. 

 -Repetition restores the possibility of what was, renders it possible anew.

 -Memory restores possibility to the past. 

 -Stoppage: is the power to interrupt, the ‘revolutionary interruption’. 

 -Stoppage shows us that cinema is closer to poetry than prose. 

 -At the heart of every creative act there is an act of de-creation. 

 -De-creating what exists, de-creating the real, being stronger than the fact in front of you. Every act of creation is also an act of thought, and an act of thought is a creative act, because it is defined above all by its capacity to de-create the real.”