Deleuze, leitor de Espinosa: Automatismo espiritual e fascismo no cinema

This text seeks to find the origins of one of the most important of Gilles Deleuze's concepts, the concept of Image-time. This concept leads us to his first texts regarding Spinoza's philosophy and the problem of the spiritual automaton, and concerns directly about the problem of passivity/ activity of the audience. That is to say that the crucial concept of his film philosophy, Image-time, hides a fundamental consideration on the cinematic image as a mass art, the (un)powers of thinking and the fascist way of thought.