Introduzione

Introduction. The Centenary That Never Was This text briefly introduces issue no. 17 of Nóema, Gilles Deleuze: Experimenting through Concepts, with reference to the theme of temporality proper to the centenary from which the issue originated, first in terms of the difference between actual and virtual temporality (with the latter, which defines the event, constituting what Carroll would have called Deleuze’s “unbirthday”), and then in terms of the “Deleuzian century”, envisioned by Michel Foucault as a possible outcome of the influence of his friend.