DOI: 10.4231/r7xd0zwd
title: Foucault: Lecture 8, 17 December 1985

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;&quot;Foucault&quot; was a 25-lecture seminar given from October 1985 to May 1986. In these lectures, Deleuze offers his interpretation and analysis of French philosopher Michel Foucault&#39;s work. Examining the theoretical foundations and major themes of Foucault&#39;s philosophy, Deleuze dedicates several lectures to each of what he calls the &quot;three axes&quot; of Foucault&#39;s thought. This seminar coincides with the publication of Deleuze&#39;s book &lt;em&gt;Foucault&lt;/em&gt; (1986).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In the 17 December 1985 lecture, topics of discussion include: Foucault&#39;s &lt;em&gt;The Archeology of Knowledge;&lt;/em&gt; the statement and its double; the statement as the double of something that is strangely similar and almost identical to it: &quot;AZERT&quot;; the copy; rules of the statement and singularities; discourse and singularities; mathematics and singular points; regular lines (&lt;em&gt;lignes de r&eacute;guliers&lt;/em&gt;) and the idea of ​​a series; the statement as a regularity, a series, the emission of singularities; power and relations of forces; knowledge (&lt;em&gt;le savoir&lt;/em&gt;) as an integration of relations of forces; philosophy, mathematics and singularities; Mallarm&eacute;&#39;s poem &ldquo;A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance&rdquo; (&ldquo;Un Coup de D&eacute;s Jamais N&#39;Abolira Le Hasard&rdquo;), chance and singular points, singularities of thought and concepts, and the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche; the social field and the relations of forces; chance as a relation of forces; pastoral and royal power; the individualization of subjects; the actualization of these individualizations by institutions, and pastoral knowledge in general; Foucault&#39;s historical series, durations, and French historian Fernand Braudel; the concept of event and social mutations; the Markov chain; light as the integration of singular points; the verbal series and the luminous series; light in Vel&aacute;zquez&#39;s &lt;em&gt;Las Meninas&lt;/em&gt;; Roussel; the interlacing of the visible and the statable (&lt;em&gt;l&#39;&eacute;non&ccedil;able&lt;/em&gt;); the informal dimension of the relations of forces between the visible and the statable; Foucault and Blanchot, the neuter pronoun (le &lt;em&gt;on&lt;/em&gt;) opposing the person, the singular opposing the universal, and the multiple opposing the same; and the knowledge-power system.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This dataset includes: four mp3 recordings of the lecture (total time, 2:11:09), an aggregate version of the audio recordings into a single mp3, and the complete French transcription of the recorded lecture in both pdf (23 pp) and plain text.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Note: The part 2 audio file plays through stereo channel only. This coincides with the (approx.) 34:27 - 1:21:10 marks of the complete audio file.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Les S&eacute;minaires de Deleuze&lt;/em&gt; 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;&laquo;Foucault&raquo; &eacute;tait un s&eacute;minaire de 25 conf&eacute;rences donn&eacute; d&#39;octobre 1985 &agrave; mai 1986. Dans ces conf&eacute;rences, Deleuze offre son interpr&eacute;tation et son analyse de l&rsquo;&oelig;uvre du philosophe fran&ccedil;ais Michel Foucault. En examinant les fondements th&eacute;oriques et les th&egrave;mes majeurs de la philosophie de Foucault, Deleuze consacre plusieurs conf&eacute;rences &agrave; chacun de ce qu&#39;il appelle les &laquo;trois axes&raquo; de la pens&eacute;e de Foucault. Ce s&eacute;minaire co&iuml;ncide avec la publication du livre de Deleuze &lt;em&gt;Foucault&lt;/em&gt; (1986).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Dans la conf&eacute;rence du 17 d&eacute;cembre 1985, les sujets de discussion comprennent: &lt;em&gt;L&#39;arch&eacute;ologie du savoir &lt;/em&gt;de Foucault; l&#39;&eacute;nonc&eacute; et son double; l&#39;&eacute;nonc&eacute; comme le double de quelque chose qui lui est &eacute;trangement sembable et quasi identique: &lt;em&gt;AZERT&lt;/em&gt;; la copie; r&egrave;gles de l&#39;&eacute;nonc&eacute; et singularit&eacute;s; discours et singularit&eacute;s; math&eacute;matiques et points singuliers; les lignes de r&eacute;guliers et l&#39;id&eacute;e de s&eacute;ries; l&#39;&eacute;nonc&eacute; comme une r&eacute;gularit&eacute;, une s&eacute;rie, l&#39;&eacute;mission de singularit&eacute;s; le pouvoir et les rapports de forces; le savoir comme une int&eacute;gration des rapports de forces; philosophie, math&eacute;matiques et singularit&eacute;s; le po&egrave;me de Mallarm&eacute; &lt;em&gt;Un Coup de D&eacute;s Jamais N&#39;Abolira Le Hasard&lt;/em&gt;, le hasard et les points singuliers, les singularit&eacute;s de la pens&eacute;e et des concepts, et le philosophe allemand Friedrich Nietzsche; le champ social et les rapports de forces; le hasard comme un rapport de forces; le pouvoir pastoral et royal; l&#39;individualisation des sujets; l&#39;actualisation de ces individualisations par les institutions, et le savoir pastoral en g&eacute;n&eacute;ral; les s&eacute;ries historiques de Foucault, les dur&eacute;es, et l&#39;historien fran&ccedil;ais Fernand Braudel; la notion d&#39;&eacute;v&eacute;nement et les mutations sociales; la cha&icirc;ne de Markov; la lumi&egrave;re comme l&#39;int&eacute;gration des points singuliers; la s&eacute;ries verbales et la s&eacute;ries lumineuses; la lumi&egrave;re dans &lt;em&gt;Les M&eacute;nines&lt;/em&gt; de Velasquez; Roussel; l&#39;entrelacement du visible et de l&#39;&eacute;non&ccedil;able; la dimension informelle des relations des rapports de forces entre le visible et l&#39;&eacute;non&ccedil;able; Foucault et Blanchot, le neutre ou le &lt;em&gt;on&lt;/em&gt; s&rsquo;opposant &agrave; la personne, le singulier s&#39;opposant &agrave; l&#39;universel, et le multiple s&#39;opposant au m&ecirc;me; et le syst&egrave;me du savoir-pouvoir.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Lecture given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze at the University of Paris 8, 17 December 1985. This is lecture 8 of a 25-lecture seminar Deleuze taught between October 1985 and May 1986.