DOI: 10.4231/r72v2db3
title: Foucault: Lecture 10, 14 January 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 14 January 1986 lecture, topics of discussion include: the relations and microphysics of power; the postulates that run through all of the theories of power: 1) membership (&lt;em&gt;appartenance&lt;/em&gt;) and class property, 2) the localization of power in the State apparatus, 3) subordination and infrastructure, 4) essence or attribute, dominant-dominated, and 5) modality, violence and ideology; the difference in nature between macro and microphysics; the law, illegalisms, the social field, and the French Revolution; illegalisms, the law and its interpretation, and jurisprudence; power as the relations of forces; that the essence of power is these relations, rather than a form or the relations of forms, whereas knowledge (&lt;em&gt;le savoir&lt;/em&gt;) is the relations of forms; that there is no singular force, rather a force is always subject to another force, already a multiplicity; Greek atomism, the declination of the atom and the oblique; the philosophy of force, Nietzsche, German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, and desire (&lt;em&gt;le vouloir&lt;/em&gt;); compound forces (&lt;em&gt;les forces compose&eacute;s&lt;/em&gt;) in space-time; the receptivity and spontaneity of a force; force and affect; that the material of force is the power of the force to be affected, and its function is the power to affect other forces; knowledge, power and categories; that power is the physics of any action; that the diagram is power; the three definitions of the diagram: 1) the exposition of a relation of forces, 2) the distribution of the power to affect and to be affected, and 3) the admixture (&lt;em&gt;le brassage&lt;/em&gt;) of non-formed materials and non-formalized functions; the archive, strata, and diagram and strategy; Melville&#39;s novel &lt;em&gt;Pierre; or, The Ambiguities&lt;/em&gt;; the Outside (&lt;em&gt;le dehors&lt;/em&gt;) of the strata; and disciplinary societies and diagrams of power.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This dataset includes: four mp3 recordings of the lecture (total time, 2:49:35), an aggregate version of the audio recordings into a single mp3, and the complete French transcription of the recorded lecture in both pdf (32 pp) and plain text.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Note: The aggregate audio file has been downsampled.&lt;/p&gt;

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

&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 14 janvier 1986, les sujets de discussion comprennent: les rapports et la microphysique du pouvoir; les postulats qui parcourent l&rsquo;ensemble des th&eacute;ories du pouvoir: 1) l&#39;appartenance et la propri&eacute;t&eacute; de classe, 2) la localisation du pouvoir dans l&#39;appareil d&#39;&Eacute;tat, 3) la subordination et l&#39;infrastructure, 4) l&#39;essence ou l&#39;attribut, dominant-domin&eacute;, et 5) la modalit&eacute;, la violence et l&#39;id&eacute;ologie; la diff&eacute;rence de nature entre macro et microphysique; la loi, les ill&eacute;galismes, le champ social et la R&eacute;volution fran&ccedil;aise; les ill&eacute;galismes, la loi et son interpr&eacute;tation, et la jurisprudence; le pouvoir comme les rapports des forces; que l&#39;essence du pouvoir est ces rapports, plut&ocirc;t qu&#39;une forme ou les relations des formes, alors que le savoir est le rapport des formes; qu&#39;il n&#39;y a pas de force au singulier, plut&ocirc;t qu&#39;une force est toujours a pour sujet une autre force, d&eacute;j&agrave; une multiplicit&eacute;; l&#39;atomisme grec, la d&eacute;clinaison de l&#39;atome et l&#39;oblique; la philosophie de la force, Nietzsche, le philosophe allemand Arthur Schopenhauer, et le vouloir; les forces compos&eacute;es dans l&#39;espace-temps; la r&eacute;ceptivit&eacute; et la spontan&eacute;it&eacute; d&#39;une force; la force et l&rsquo;affect; que la mati&egrave;re de la force est le pouvoir de la force d&rsquo;&ecirc;tre affect&eacute;e, et sa fonction est le pouvoir d&#39;affecter d&rsquo;autres forces; le savoir, le pouvoir et les cat&eacute;gories; ce pouvoir est la physique de l&rsquo;action quelconque; que le diagramme est pouvoir; les trois d&eacute;finitions du diagramme: 1) l&#39;exposition d&#39;un rapport de forces, 2) la r&eacute;partition du pouvoir d&rsquo;affecter ou d&rsquo;&ecirc;tre affect&eacute;, et 3) le brassage de mati&eacute;res non form&eacute;es et de fonctions non formalis&eacute;es; l&#39;archive, les strates, le diagramme et la strat&eacute;gie; le roman de Melville &lt;em&gt;Pierre ou les Ambigu&iuml;t&eacute;s&lt;/em&gt;; le dehors des strates; et les soci&eacute;t&eacute;s disciplinaires et les diagrammes de pouvoir.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Lecture given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze at the University of Paris 8, 14 January 1986. This is lecture 10 of a 25-lecture seminar Deleuze taught between October 1985 and May 1986.