DOI: 10.4231/r7bg2m6g
title: Foucault: Lecture 12, 28 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 28 January 1986 lecture, topics of discussion include: Foucault and the new subjectivities, before and after the events of 1968; May 1968 and the question of centralism; the Yugoslav experience; the French sociologist, journalist, and political activist Serge Mallet; Sartre; Austrian social philosopher and journalist Andr&eacute; Gorz and the idea of a new working class; Hungarian philosopher Gy&ouml;rgy Luk&aacute;cs and his book &lt;em&gt;History and Class Consciousness&lt;/em&gt;; the production of a new type of subject of history; the Frankfurt School; Italian Marxism; autonomy; the Italian sociologist, political theorist and activist Romano Alquati; Italian philosopher and politician Mario Tronti and his book &lt;em&gt;Workers and Capital&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Operai e capitale&lt;/em&gt;); the qualitative (&lt;em&gt;revendication&lt;/em&gt;) claim; the emergence of new forms of struggles (&lt;em&gt;luttes&lt;/em&gt;), practices, and networks (&lt;em&gt;r&eacute;seaux&lt;/em&gt;), both transversal and no longer centralized; the French psychotherapist and philosopher F&eacute;lix Guattari; the revaluation of Marxism; Foucault&#39;s book &lt;em&gt;Discipline and Punish&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Surveiller et punir&lt;/em&gt;); the microphysics of power; politics; social forms or institutions, and integrations of power or actualizations; Proust and sexuality; social forms or knowledge (&lt;em&gt;le savoir&lt;/em&gt;) as integrating relations of power or of forces; will (&lt;em&gt;volont&eacute;&lt;/em&gt;) and knowledge; actualization, differentiation and division; Bergson; animal forms and plant forms (&lt;em&gt;formes v&eacute;g&eacute;tales&lt;/em&gt;); energy and movement; affects and forces; the power to affect and the power to be affected; the two conceptions of dualism as either the product of a division of the One (&lt;em&gt;l&rsquo;Un&lt;/em&gt;) or as a provisional stage of the multiple; sociology, stratified formations, diagrams and &lt;em&gt;Discipline and Punish&lt;/em&gt;; and material techniques, social technologies and the example of the stirrup (&lt;em&gt;l&#39;&eacute;trier&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This dataset includes: five mp3 recordings of the lecture (total time, 3:10:06), an aggregate version of the audio recordings into a single mp3, and the complete French transcription of the recorded lecture in both pdf (35 pp) and plain text.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Note: The first (approx.) 0:00:18 of the part 1 and complete audio files is of a student asking Deleuze a question. This portion has not been transcribed. The transcription begins with Deleuze&rsquo;s response at the (approx.) 0:00:21 mark.&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 28 janvier 1986, les sujets de discussion comprennent: Foucault et les nouvelles subjectivit&eacute;s, avant et apr&egrave;s les &eacute;v&eacute;nements de 1968; Mai 1968 et la question du centralisme; l&#39;exp&eacute;rience yougoslave; le sociologue, journaliste et militant politique fran&ccedil;ais Serge Mallet; Sartre; le philosophe et journaliste social autrichien Andr&eacute; Gorz et l&#39;id&eacute;e d&#39;une nouvelle classe ouvri&egrave;re; le philosophe hongrois Gy&ouml;rgy Luk&aacute;cs et son livre &lt;em&gt;Histoire et conscience de classe&lt;/em&gt;; la production d&#39;un nouveau type de sujet d&#39;histoire; l&#39;&eacute;cole de Francfort; le marxisme italien; l&rsquo;autonomie; le sociologue, th&eacute;oricien politique et activiste italien Romano Alquati; le philosophe et politicien italien Mario Tronti et son livre &lt;em&gt;Ouvrier et capital&lt;/em&gt;; la revendication qualitative; l&#39;&eacute;mergence de nouvelles formes des luttes, pratiques et r&eacute;seaux, &agrave; la fois transversales et non plus centralis&eacute;es; le psychoth&eacute;rapeute et philosophe fran&ccedil;ais F&eacute;lix Guattari; la r&eacute;&eacute;valuation du marxisme; le livre de Foucault &lt;em&gt;Surveiller et punir&lt;/em&gt;; la microphysique du pouvoir; politique; formes sociales ou institutions, et int&eacute;grations de pouvoir ou d&#39;actualisations; Proust et la sexualit&eacute;; les formes sociales ou de savoir comme int&eacute;grant des rapports du pouvoir ou des forces; volont&eacute; et savoir; actualisation, diff&eacute;renciation et division; Bergson; formes animales et formes v&eacute;g&eacute;tales; &eacute;nergie et mouvement; affects et forces; le pouvoir d&#39;affecter et le pouvoir d&#39;&ecirc;tre affect&eacute;; les deux conceptions du dualisme comme &eacute;tant soit le produit d&#39;une division de l&#39;Un ou bien un stade provisoire du multiple; sociologie, formations stratifi&eacute;es, diagrammes et &lt;em&gt;Surveiller et punir&lt;/em&gt;; et les techniques mat&eacute;rielles, les technologies sociales et l&#39;exemple de l&#39;&eacute;trier.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Lecture given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze at the University of Paris 8, 28 January 1986. This is lecture 12 of a 25-lecture seminar Deleuze taught between October 1985 and May 1986.