DOI: 10.4231/r70z71gn
title: Thought and Cinema: Lecture 11, 29 January 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;&ldquo;Thought and Cinema&rdquo; was a 26-lecture seminar given from October 1984 to June 1985. This would mark the fourth consecutive seminar (1981-1985) which Deleuze gave on various aspects of cinema. Here, Deleuze examines thought as a process which closely parallels cinema, starting from the premise that thought, having both a spatial and a temporal aspect, presupposes an implicit image.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In the 29 January 1985 lecture, topics of discussion include: Godard&rsquo;s theory of a series as a suite of images being reflected in a genre or category; Godard&#39;s films &lt;em&gt;Passion&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;A Letter to Freddy Buache&lt;/em&gt;; thought, concept and image; Eisenstein; Hegel, phenomenology and logic; concept, consciousness and attitude; the French Hegelians Eric Weil, Alexandre Koyr&eacute; and Alexandre Koj&egrave;ve; Weil on attitudes and categories; the French writer Georges Bataille; the Marquis de Sade; French film critic Serge Daney and his collection of articles, &lt;em&gt;La Rampe&lt;/em&gt;; Godard and gesture (la &lt;em&gt;Geste&lt;/em&gt;) as the speech (&lt;em&gt;discours&lt;/em&gt;) of attitudes; Brecht, the &lt;em&gt;Gestus&lt;/em&gt; acting technique, speech (&lt;em&gt;discours&lt;/em&gt;) and attitudes, and the break (&lt;em&gt;rupture&lt;/em&gt;) between the subject and experience; theater and the thought of the spectator; concept and understanding; French literary theorist, philosopher and critic Roland Barthes on the &lt;em&gt;Gestus&lt;/em&gt;, his essay &quot;Diderot, Brecht, Eisenstein&rdquo; and his collection of critical essays &lt;em&gt;L&#39;obvie et l&#39;obtus&lt;/em&gt;; the theory of the pregnant moment (&lt;em&gt;l&rsquo;instant pr&eacute;gnant&lt;/em&gt;); the photogram, time and the image; and the French writer and filmmaker Raymonde Carasco.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This dataset includes: three mp3 recordings of the lecture (total time, 2:35:04), an aggregate version of the audio recordings into a single mp3, the complete French transcription of the recorded lecture in both pdf (27 pp) and plain text, and two image files (JPEGs).&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;Pens&eacute;e et cin&eacute;ma&raquo; &eacute;tait un s&eacute;minaire de 26 conf&eacute;rences donn&eacute; d&#39;octobre 1984 &agrave; juin 1985. Cela marquerait le quatri&egrave;me s&eacute;minaire cons&eacute;cutif (1981-1985) que Deleuze a donn&eacute; sur divers aspects du cin&eacute;ma. Ici, Deleuze examine la pens&eacute;e comme un m&eacute;thode qui est &eacute;troitement parall&egrave;le au cin&eacute;ma, en partant du pr&eacute;misse que la pens&eacute;e, ayant &agrave; la fois un aspect spatial et un aspect temporel, pr&eacute;suppose une image implicite.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Dans la conf&eacute;rence du 29 janvier 1985, les sujets de discussion comprennent: la th&eacute;orie de Godard d&#39;une s&eacute;rie comme suite d&#39;images se se r&eacute;fl&eacute;chissant dans un genre ou une cat&eacute;gorie; les films de Godard &lt;em&gt;Passion&lt;/em&gt; et &lt;em&gt;Lettre &agrave; Freddy Buache&lt;/em&gt;; la pens&eacute;e, le concept et l&#39;image; Eisenstein; Hegel, ph&eacute;nom&eacute;nologie et logique; concept, conscience et attitude; les h&eacute;g&eacute;liens fran&ccedil;ais Eric Weil, Alexandre Koyr&eacute; et Alexandre Koj&egrave;ve; Weil sur les attitudes et les cat&eacute;gories; l&#39;&eacute;crivain fran&ccedil;ais Georges Bataille; le marquis de Sade; le critique de cin&eacute;ma fran&ccedil;ais Serge Daney et sa collection d&#39;articles, &lt;em&gt;La Rampe&lt;/em&gt;; Godard et la &lt;em&gt;Geste&lt;/em&gt; comme le discours des attitudes; Brecht, la technique agissante du &lt;em&gt;Gestus&lt;/em&gt;, le discours et les attitudes, et la rupture entre le sujet et le v&eacute;cu; le th&eacute;&acirc;tre et la pens&eacute;e du spectateur; concept et entendement; le th&eacute;oricien litt&eacute;raire, philosophe et critique fran&ccedil;ais Roland Barthes sur le &lt;em&gt;Gestus&lt;/em&gt;, son essai &laquo;Diderot, Brecht, Eisenstein&raquo; et son &lt;em&gt;L&#39;obvie et l&#39;obtus: Essais critiques III&lt;/em&gt;; la th&eacute;orie de l&#39;instant pr&eacute;gnant; le photogramme, le temps et l&#39;image; et l&#39;&eacute;crivaine et cin&eacute;aste fran&ccedil;aise Raymonde Carasco.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Lecture given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze at the University of Paris 8, 29 January 1985. This is lecture 11 of a 26-lecture seminar Deleuze taught between October 1984 and June 1985.