DOI: 10.4231/r7zc813x
title: Foucault: Lecture 5, 19 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 19 November 1985 lecture, topics of discussion include: the statement and extrinsic variables; the logic and linguistics of propositions; the heterogeneity of the statement; the statement and vector fields (&lt;em&gt;les champs de vecteurs&lt;/em&gt;); the subject, the object, and the concept of the statement; Blanchot and the unassignable &lt;em&gt;on&lt;/em&gt; (le &lt;em&gt;on&lt;/em&gt;); Irish writer Samuel Beckett; statements and propositions; Foucault&#39;s &lt;em&gt;The Archeology of Knowledge&lt;/em&gt;; French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, the dream and perception; the audio-visual archive and the statable (&lt;em&gt;l&#39;&eacute;nonҫable&lt;/em&gt;); light and the corpus of things, objects, states of things and sensible qualities; the painting; paintings (&lt;em&gt;les tableaux&lt;/em&gt;) as a regime of light which conditions everything else in Foucault&rsquo;s philosophy; the relations between the statable and the visible; the disjunction between &lsquo;to see&rsquo; (&lt;em&gt;voir&lt;/em&gt;) and &lsquo;to speak&rsquo; (&lt;em&gt;parler&lt;/em&gt;); Belgian artist Ren&eacute; Magritte&rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;The Treachery of Images&lt;/em&gt; (&ldquo;This Is Not a Pipe&rdquo;); Foucault, German philosopher Immanuel Kant, and the difference in the nature of the two faculties of the human mind (space-time as the form of intuition, and the concept); that the form of any concept is &lt;em&gt;a = a&lt;/em&gt;; space and time as the forms of receptivity; the &ldquo;I think&rdquo; (&lt;em&gt;je pense&lt;/em&gt;) as the form of personal spontaneity; intuition as a fundamental disequilibrium in humans; that from the point of view of the infinite, or of God, everything is concept; creation &lt;em&gt;ex nihilo&lt;/em&gt;; German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and difference as being in the concept (which Kant opposes); Kant, constituent finitude, and the irreducibility of the given to the concept; the philosophy of the seventeenth century, and the infinite and the finite; French mathematician and writer Blaise Pascal and the orders of infinity; and Kant, aesthetic judgment and the schematism of the imagination.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This dataset includes: five mp3 recordings of the lecture (total time, 3:01:08), an aggregate version of the audio recordings into a single mp3, and the complete French transcription of the recorded lecture in both pdf (36 pp) and plain text.&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 19 novembre 1985, les sujets de discussion comprennent: l&#39;&eacute;nonc&eacute; et les variables extrins&egrave;ques; la logique et la linguistique des propositions; l&#39;h&eacute;t&eacute;rog&eacute;n&eacute;it&eacute; de l&#39;&eacute;nonc&eacute;; l&#39;&eacute;nonc&eacute; et les champs de vecteurs; le sujet, l&#39;objet et le concept de l&#39;&eacute;nonc&eacute;; Blanchot et le &lt;em&gt;on&lt;/em&gt; inassignable; l&#39;&eacute;crivain irlandais Samuel Beckett; l&#39;&eacute;nonc&eacute;s et propositions; &lt;em&gt;L&#39;arch&eacute;ologie du savoir &lt;/em&gt;de Foucault; le philosophe fran&ccedil;ais Jean-Paul Sartre, le r&ecirc;ve et la perception; l&#39;archive audio-visuelle et l&#39;&eacute;nonҫable; la lumi&egrave;re et le corpus des choses, des objets, des &eacute;tats de choses et des qualit&eacute;s sensibles; la peinture; les tableaux comme un r&eacute;gime de lumi&egrave;re qui conditionne tout le reste de la philosophie de Foucault; les rapports entre l&#39;&eacute;nonҫable et le visible; la disjonction entre voir et parler; &lt;em&gt;La trahison des images&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Ceci n&rsquo;est pas une pipe&lt;/em&gt;) de l&#39;artiste belge Ren&eacute; Magritte; Foucault, le philosophe allemand Immanuel Kant, et la diff&eacute;rence dans la nature des deux facult&eacute;s de l&#39;esprit humain (l&#39;espace-temps comme forme d&#39;intuition, et le concept); que la forme de tout concept est &lt;em&gt;a = a&lt;/em&gt;; l&#39;espace et le temps comme formes de r&eacute;ceptivit&eacute;; &lt;em&gt;je pense&lt;/em&gt; comme forme de spontan&eacute;it&eacute; personnelle; l&#39;intuition comme un d&eacute;s&eacute;quilibre fondamental chez humains; que du point de vue de l&#39;infini, ou de Dieu, tout est concept; cr&eacute;ation &lt;em&gt;ex nihilo&lt;/em&gt;; le philosophe allemand Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz et diff&eacute;rence comme &eacute;tant dans le concept (que Kant oppose); Kant, la finitude constituante, et l&#39;irr&eacute;ductibilit&eacute; du donn&eacute; au concept; la philosophie du XVIIe si&egrave;cle, et l&#39;infini et le fini; le math&eacute;maticien et &eacute;crivain fran&ccedil;ais Blaise Pascal et les ordres de l&#39;infini; et Kant, le jugement esth&eacute;tique et le sch&eacute;matisme de l&#39;imagination.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Lecture given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze at the University of Paris 8, 19 November 1985. This is lecture 5 of a 25-lecture seminar Deleuze taught between October 1985 and May 1986.