DOI: 10.4231/vzad-bn24
title: A Thousand Plateaus I, RAI-3 Recordings, Lecture 10, 2 March 1976 (Part 2)

description: &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Deleuze Seminars&lt;/em&gt; is a collection of audio recordings, transcriptions, and English translations of, and supplemental materials from, the lectures French philosopher Gilles Deleuze gave during his career at the University of Paris 8.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Following the publication of &lt;em&gt;Anti-Oedipus&lt;/em&gt; in 1972, Deleuze continues to develop the proliferation of concepts that his collaboration with Guattari had yielded. Throughout the 1970s, Deleuze and Guattari&rsquo;s interest in expanding these concepts continues, eventually producing the sequel, &lt;em&gt;A Thousand Plateaus&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The 1975-1976 seminar sessions were filmed by one of his students, Marielle Burkhalter, as part of her masters project, &ldquo;Filming Philosophy as it Happens.&rdquo; Enrico Ghezzi acquired the videos for broadcast on the RAI-3 cinema program &ldquo;Fuori Orario,&rdquo; after inviting Burkhalter to screen them at a festival he co-curated. Marielle Burkhalter, along with Stavroula Bellos, would eventually become the director of the L&rsquo;Association Si&egrave;cle Deleuzien and oversaw the French transcriptions of Deleuze&rsquo;s seminars at the Paris 8 &ldquo;Voix de Gilles Deleuze&rdquo; website (http://www2.univ-paris8.fr/deleuze/).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In this group of lectures, Deleuze offers the multi-faceted focus of the semester&rsquo;s work, mainly to distinguish forms of faciality, encompassing black-holes/white-walls, faces and landscapes, facial power-relations, redundancy, molecular multiplicity, the rhizome, the refrain, and courtly love. As none of the films was marked chronologically, the order of the successive seminars was determined based on the content provided in the videos, notably Deleuze&rsquo;s course organization that followed successive chapters from &lt;em&gt;A Thousand Plateaus. &lt;/em&gt;Besides the content as one guidepost as well as the physical disposition of classroom details, the chronologically first video was the one titled &ldquo;Deleuze su molteplicit&agrave; molare e molteplicit&agrave; molecolare&rdquo; followed by the two successive four-hour segments, titled &ldquo;Il Senso in meno&rdquo;. Furthermore, despite no precise dates provided, a sequence of dates was extrapolated before and after session 7 based on comments by an Iranian student announcing during that session that a demonstration would occur later that day, 3 February 1976.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In session 10, 2 March 1976, part 2 (date approximate), the film corresponds to the fourth segment of the &ldquo;Il Senso in Meno&rdquo; II recording (the ninth segment of both parts), on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Po2tIgeD4, corresponding to time stamp 3:45:48 to the end of the fourth segment at 4:21:40. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In session 10, 2 March 1976, the successive segment of this same session shows the previous discussion regarding modes of signifying as related to faciality with Deleuze in the process of creating a multidimensional multiplicity, currently the fifth dimension. Then, shifting to a sixth dimension, Deleuze asserts that the paranoid or despotic system needs to block lines of flight from escaping the circular system, the sixth dimension being the presence of a line of flight with negative value, and hence everything that threatens this system&rsquo;s signifiance is cast out. With the six dimensions of the paranoid or despotic system in place (two dimensions during this session), Deleuze proposes to link this schema to the second figure, the passional which functions entirely differently, with a packet of signs fleeing along the segmented line. To Georges Comtesse&rsquo;s challenge to Deleuze&rsquo;s model of the face-substance center, Deleuze reacts with considerable scorn since Comtesse has simply changed the terms, all the more evident when he agrees with each of Deleuze&rsquo;s points. The film ends with Comtesse holding forth alone at the back of the classroom with Deleuze listening calmly and smiling.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The French transcription and subsequent English translation were developed for the Deleuze Seminars directly from the RAI-3 recording, located at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emORIIs8esw&amp;t=10347s. This dataset includes two files: a revised French transcription and new English translation in odt format.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Les S&eacute;minaires de Deleuze sont une collection d&#39;enregistrements audio, de transcriptions et de traductions en anglais et de documents compl&eacute;mentaires des conf&eacute;rences que le philosophe fran&ccedil;ais Gilles Deleuze a donn&eacute; lors de sa carri&egrave;re &agrave; l&#39;Universit&eacute; de Paris 8.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Dans la s&eacute;ance 10, toujours le 2 mars 1976, le segment suivant de la s&eacute;ance pr&eacute;c&eacute;dente montre la discussion sur les modes de signification en rapport avec la visag&eacute;&iuml;t&eacute;, avec Deleuze en train de cr&eacute;er une multiplicit&eacute; multidimensionnelle, actuellement la cinqui&egrave;me dimension. Puis, passant &agrave; une sixi&egrave;me dimension, Deleuze affirme que le syst&egrave;me parano&iuml;aque ou despotique doit bloquer les lignes de fuite pour qu&rsquo;elles ne s&rsquo;&eacute;chappent pas du syst&egrave;me circulaire, la sixi&egrave;me dimension &eacute;tant la pr&eacute;sence d&rsquo;une ligne de fuite &agrave; valeur n&eacute;gative, et donc tout ce qui menace la signification de ce syst&egrave;me est rejet&eacute;. Avec les six dimensions du syst&egrave;me parano&iuml;aque ou despotique en place (deux dimensions lors de cette s&eacute;ance), Deleuze propose de relier ce sch&eacute;ma &agrave; la deuxi&egrave;me figure, la figure passionnelle qui fonctionne de mani&egrave;re enti&egrave;rement diff&eacute;rente, avec un paquet de signes fuyant le long de la ligne segment&eacute;e. Lorsque Georges Comtesse remet en cause le mod&egrave;le de Deleuze du centre visage-substance, Deleuze r&eacute;agit avec un m&eacute;pris consid&eacute;rable, car Comtesse n&rsquo;a fait que changer les termes, ce qui est d&rsquo;autant plus &eacute;vident lorsqu&rsquo;il est d&rsquo;accord avec chacun des points qu&rsquo;exprime Deleuze. Le film se termine avec Comtesse parlant seule au fond de la classe, Deleuze l&rsquo;&eacute;coutant calmement et souriant.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Seminar of 10 sessions, given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, Vincennes University, filmed for RAI-3 television by Marielle Burkhalter. The tenth lecture was presented on 2 March 1976 (date approximate).