DOI: 10.4231/7a4z-dk57
title: A Thousand Plateaus I, RAI-3 Recordings, Lecture 6, 20 January 1976

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 6, 20 January 1976 (date approximate), the film corresponds to the fifth segment of the &ldquo;Il Senso in Meno&rdquo; I recording, on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emORIIs8esw&amp;t=10347s, corresponding to time stamp 3:23:33 to the end of the first recording at 3:59:59.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In a brief session without Guattari, Deleuze continues to develop details regarding faciality, specifically as linked to American psychology, and rejecting different approaches to this concept (genetic, phenomenological, partial-object analysis, and structural), Deleuze focuses on bodily intensive movements, or movements of deterritorialization. Deleuze then proposes several theorems of deterritorialization, emphasizing that territoriality, deterritorialization and reterritorialization constitute three notions that are not reducible to each other. This recording ends with Deleuze indicating that their abstract machines are different, e.g. dance and gesture.&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;

&lt;p&gt;--&lt;/p&gt;

&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 6, le 20 janvier 1976 (date approximative), une br&egrave;ve s&eacute;ance sans Guattari, Deleuze continue de d&eacute;velopper des d&eacute;tails concernant la visag&eacute;&iuml;t&eacute;, en particulier en ce qui concerne la psychologie am&eacute;ricaine, et rejetant diff&eacute;rentes approches de ce concept (g&eacute;n&eacute;tique, ph&eacute;nom&eacute;nologique, analyse d&#39;objet partiel et structurelle), Deleuze se concentre sur les mouvements corporels intensifs, ou mouvements de d&eacute;territorialisation. Deleuze propose ensuite plusieurs th&eacute;or&egrave;mes de d&eacute;territorialisation, soulignant que la territorialit&eacute;, la d&eacute;territorialisation et la reterritorialisation constituent trois notions qui ne sont pas r&eacute;ductibles l&#39;une &agrave; l&#39;autre. Cet enregistrement se termine avec Deleuze indiquant que leurs machines abstraites sont diff&eacute;rentes, par exemple la danse et le geste.&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 sixth lecture was presented on 20 January 1976 (date approximate).