Contents -- Introduction: The New Metaphysics of Immanence -- The revival of metaphysics -- The unusual suspects -- The scholarship -- Organization -- Bergson's Matter-Image: The Degradation of the Impersonal -- Bergson and the problem of dualism -- Matter: an aggregate of images -- Bergson and associationism -- Memory and memory-images -- Pure memory and déjà-vu -- Sartre's Image-Consciousness: The Allergic Reaction to Matter -- Sartre and the impersonal -- Sartre's dualism -- Sartre and the phenomenology of the image -- Sartre's fantasy of 'natural signification' -- Husserl and Sartre -- The 'bastardization' of impersonal consciousness -- Imagination -- The Psychology of Imagination -- Image-consciousness -- Between Idealism and Realism -- Lyotard's Sublime: The Ontologization of the Image -- The event -- From nausea to sublimity: Sartre and Lyotard -- The postmodern sublime: the image as event -- The Kantian sublime -- Lyotard's critique -- The sublime and time -- Barnett Newman -- Baudrillard's Simulacrum: The End of Visibility -- The involuntary Platonist -- The real: Bergson and Baudrillard -- The real: Sartre and Baudrillard -- The virtual -- The impersonal -- The fatal -- Giacometti -- 'Seduction' and 'production' -- The real and the hyperreal -- The event -- Nostalgia for the subject -- Deleuze's Time-Image: Getting Rid of Ourselves -- The ontologization of the film image -- Representation and point of view -- Deleuze and the fantasy of 'natural signification' -- Types of images -- The time-image: between ontology and history -- Deleuze and Kant -- Deleuze and Baudrillard -- The impersonal: banal, nauseating or sublime? -- The falsification of time -- Signification and a-signification -- Getting rid of ourselves? -- Imaginary Time in Contemporary Cinema -- Prolegomena to a 'metaphysical' cinema.

The impersonal, the infinite and the virtual -- Time and point of view -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.