DOI: 10.4231/r74j0c90
title: Foucault: Lecture 25, 27 May 1986

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 27 May 1986 lecture, Deleuze begins with an explanation of what he means by &#39;interpretation&#39; vis-&agrave;-vis his course on Foucault. Other topics of discussion include: the creation of concepts; the new sense (&lt;em&gt;acception&lt;/em&gt;) of names and words; the original concepts introduced by Foucault (Deleuze asserts that we have to draw the lines [&lt;em&gt;tracer les lignes&lt;/em&gt;], the signature of philosophical concepts); the fold and the unfold (&lt;em&gt;le d&eacute;pli&lt;/em&gt;) as an artistic gesture; Mallarm&eacute;&#39;s invocation of the fold; and English essayist Thomas de Quincey and his book &lt;em&gt;Revolt of the Tartars&lt;/em&gt;. Much of the lecture consists of the class listening to French composer, conductor and writer Pierre Boulez&#39;s &lt;em&gt;Fold by fold: Portrait of Mallarm&eacute; &lt;/em&gt;(&lt;em&gt;Pli selon pli: Portrait de Mallarm&eacute;&lt;/em&gt;), which incorporates lines of Mallarm&eacute;&rsquo;s poetry. Deleuze also reads some of Mallarm&eacute;&#39;s poetry.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This dataset includes: three mp3 recordings of the lecture (total time, 1:41:57), an aggregate version of the audio recordings into a single mp3, and the complete French transcription of the recorded lecture in both pdf (11 pp) and plain text.&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 27 mai 1986, Deleuze commence par expliquer ce que veut dire par &laquo;interpr&eacute;tation&raquo; par rapport &agrave; son cours sur Foucault. Les autres sujets de discussion comprennent: la cr&eacute;ation de concepts; la nouvelle acception des noms et des mots; les concepts originaux amen&eacute;s par Foucault (Deleuze affirme qu&#39;il en faut en tracer les lignes, la signature des concepts philosophiques); le pli et le d&eacute;pli comme geste artistique; l&#39;invocation du pli chez po&egrave;te fran&ccedil;ais St&eacute;phane Mallarm&eacute;; et l&#39;essayiste anglais Thomas de Quincey et son livre &lt;em&gt;La r&eacute;volte des Tartares&lt;/em&gt;. Une grande partie de la conf&eacute;rence consiste en l&#39;&eacute;coute du compositeur, chef d&#39;orchestre et &eacute;crivain fran&ccedil;ais Pierre Boulez, &lt;em&gt;Pli selon pli: Portrait de Mallarm&eacute;&lt;/em&gt;, qui incorpore des vers de la po&eacute;sie de Mallarm&eacute;. Deleuze lectures aussi une partie de la po&eacute;sie de Mallarm&eacute;.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Lecture given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze at the University of Paris 8, 27 May 1986. This is lecture 25 of a 25-lecture seminar Deleuze taught between October 1985 and May 1986.