Abstract: In this essay I position the Deleuzian circuit of the actual and the virtual in relation to a film installation, Sutapa Biswas’ Birdsong (2004), in order to open up a reading of the film in terms of affect. Biswas’ film, in which a boy confronts a horse in a period living room, can be … Continue reading The Double Side of Delay: Sutapa Biswas’ film installation ‘Birdsong’ and Gilles Deleuze’s Actual/Virtual Couplet – Maria Walsh