DOI: 10.4231/r76t0jvm
title: Foucault: Lecture 3, 05 November 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 05 November 1985 lecture, topics of discussion include: the series of shifts (&lt;em&gt;d&eacute;placements&lt;/em&gt;) in Foucault&#39;s philosophy: the question of knowledge, followed by the question of power, followed by the question of desire; why and how the shift from knowledge to power fits into Foucault&#39;s philosophy; archeology as the extraction of the statements of a period; words, phrases and propositions as that which is immediately given; Austro&ndash;German psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing and his &lt;em&gt;Psychopathia Sexualis&lt;/em&gt;; that to find statements (&lt;em&gt;&eacute;nonc&eacute;s&lt;/em&gt;) it is necessary to constitute a corpus; American linguists Leonard Bloomfield and Zellig Harris, distributionalism and unlocking the patterns that define statements; French sociologist Gabriel Tarde and microsociology; statements of the nineteenth century; the concept of corpus, and the focal points (&lt;em&gt;les foyers&lt;/em&gt;) of power and of resistance; the dimension in which language is given; the being of language as historical; the gathering of language as linked to a historical formation (representation for the seventeenth century, literature for the nineteenth century); French philosopher Maurice Blanchot&#39;s theory of literature as irreducible to representation, of which French poet St&eacute;phane Mallarm&eacute; is an example; linguistics presupposing that every corpus is relative; that there is never a beginning of language; being-language and the anonymous murmur; the silent meaning (&lt;em&gt;le sens muet&lt;/em&gt;) of things and the world, and phenomenology; the gathering of language and the &quot;we speak&quot; (&lt;em&gt;on parle&lt;/em&gt;), the anonymous murmur or statement; the corpus of visibility; the being-light of each period; a painting (&lt;em&gt;un tableau&lt;/em&gt;) as a gathering of light; Raymond Roussel; and how the being-language and the being-light of the same period are heterogeneous.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This dataset includes: four mp3 recordings of the lecture (total time, 2:25:28), an aggregate version of the audio recordings into a single mp3, the complete French transcription of the recorded lecture in both pdf (29 pp) and plain text, and an image file (JPEG).&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 05 novembre 1985, les sujets de discussion comprennent: la s&eacute;rie des d&eacute;placements chez Foucault: la question du savoir, puis la question du pouvoir, puis la question du d&eacute;sir; pourquoi et comment le d&eacute;placement du savoir au pouvoir chez Foucault; l&#39;arch&eacute;ologie comme l&#39;extraction des &eacute;nonc&eacute;s d&#39;une &eacute;poque; des mots, des phrases et des propositions comme ce qui est imm&eacute;diatement donn&eacute;; le psychiatre austro-allemand Richard von Krafft-Ebing et sa &lt;em&gt;Psychopathia sexualis&lt;/em&gt;; que pour trouver les &eacute;nonc&eacute;s il faut constituer un corpus; les linguistes am&eacute;ricains Leonard Bloomfield et Zellig Harris, le distributionalisme et d&eacute;gager les r&eacute;gularit&eacute;s qui d&eacute;finissent les &eacute;nonc&eacute;s; sociologue fran&ccedil;ais Gabriel Tarde et microsociologie; les &eacute;nonc&eacute;s du XIXe si&egrave;cle; la notion de corpus et les foyers de pouvoir et de r&eacute;sistance; la dimension dans laquelle le langage est donn&eacute;; l&#39;&ecirc;tre du langage comme historique; le rassemblement du langage comme li&eacute; &agrave; une formation historique (repr&eacute;sentation pour le XVIIe si&egrave;cle, litt&eacute;rature pour le XIXe si&egrave;cle); la philosophe fran&ccedil;ais Maurice Blanchot et sa th&eacute;orie de la litt&eacute;rature du comme irr&eacute;ductible &agrave; la repr&eacute;sentation, dont le po&egrave;te fran&ccedil;ais St&eacute;phane Mallarm&eacute; est un exemple; la linguistique pr&eacute;suppose que tout corpus est relatif; qu&#39;il n&#39;y a jamais de commencement du langage; l&#39;&ecirc;tre-langage et le murmure anonyme; le sens silencieux muet des choses et du monde, et la ph&eacute;nom&eacute;nologie; le rassemblement du langage et le &lt;em&gt;on parle&lt;/em&gt;, le murmure anonyme ou &eacute;nonc&eacute;; le corpus de visibilit&eacute;; l&#39;&ecirc;tre-lumi&egrave;re de chaque &eacute;poque; un tableau comme un rassemblement de lumi&egrave;re; Raymond Roussel; et comment l&#39;&ecirc;tre-langage et l&#39;&ecirc;tre-lumi&egrave;re d&rsquo;une m&ecirc;me &eacute;poque sont h&eacute;t&eacute;rog&egrave;nes.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Lecture given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze at the University of Paris 8, 05 November 1985. This is lecture 3 of a 25-lecture seminar Deleuze taught between October 1985 and May 1986.