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joint, cardo, is what ensures the subordination <strong>of</strong> time to those properly cardinal points through<br />

which pass the periodic movements which is measures (time, number <strong>of</strong> the movement, for the<br />

soul as much as for the world” (DR 88). On the other hand, to throw time out <strong>of</strong> joint is to<br />

overcome the Platonic Idea as the order <strong>of</strong> the passage <strong>of</strong> time. “By contrast, time out <strong>of</strong> joint<br />

means...time presenting itself as an empty and pure form” (DR 88). In fact, to throw time out <strong>of</strong><br />

joint is to constitute time as the power <strong>of</strong> passage that has its own order. “Time itself unfolds<br />

(that is, apparently ceases to be a circle) instead <strong>of</strong> things unfolding within it (following the<br />

overly simple circular figure). It ceases to be cardinal and becomes ordinal, a pure order <strong>of</strong> time”<br />

(DR 88). Deleuze defines the order <strong>of</strong> time as passage in simple terms. The passage <strong>of</strong> time is<br />

ordered in terms <strong>of</strong> change: “time is the most radical form <strong>of</strong> change, but the form <strong>of</strong> change<br />

does not change” (DR 89). In this sense, the question that Deleuze really proposes to answer is<br />

how there can be the constitution <strong>of</strong> time as change. His answer to this question is rather<br />

technical, but the idea is not. The passive self constitutes time as change to the extent that it itself<br />

changes, in other words, to the extent that it demonstrates that change as itself.<br />

Deleuze defines time as change in terms <strong>of</strong> a totality and a series. “Having abjured its<br />

empirical content, having overturned its own ground time is defined not only by a formal and<br />

empty order but also by a totality and a series” (DR 89). Time as change is the series <strong>of</strong> past,<br />

present and future. However, we must be careful in interpreting the meaning <strong>of</strong> this series. Time<br />

as change is in the living present or a way <strong>of</strong> being. “We cannot say that it was. It no longer<br />

exists, it does not exist, but it insists, it consists, it is. It insists with the former present, it consists<br />

with the new present” (DR 82). In other words, time as change is not an empirical time. It is not<br />

the past, nor the present nor the future. Instead, it is what makes these empirical times pass. In<br />

this sense, the series past, present, and future does not designate empirical times: “past, present<br />

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