DOI: 10.4231/r7jm27vp
title: Foucault: Lecture 15, 11 March 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 11 March 1986 lecture, topics of discussion include: forces in humans; the relationship of forces to forms; forces and the infinite; the forces of finitude: life, language, labor (&lt;em&gt;le travail&lt;/em&gt;), and where these forces fold (&lt;em&gt;se replient&lt;/em&gt;) in humans; the metaphor of the fold and the unfold (&lt;em&gt;le d&eacute;pli&lt;/em&gt;) in Foucault; Foucault&#39;s &lt;em&gt;The Birth of the Clinic&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Naissance de la clinique&lt;/em&gt;) and the medical gaze (&lt;em&gt;regard m&eacute;dical&lt;/em&gt;); French naturalist and zoologist Georges Cuvier and the branches of life; the figures of the fold and the unfold and life; Cuvier and the finite plurality (&lt;em&gt;pluralit&eacute; finie&lt;/em&gt;) of zoological body plans (&lt;em&gt;plans d&#39;organisations&lt;/em&gt;); labor (&lt;em&gt;le travail&lt;/em&gt;) in the seventeenth century; Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith and German philosopher Friedrich Engels on the labor force (&lt;em&gt;force de travail&lt;/em&gt;); German philosopher and economist Karl Marx and British political economist David Ricardo on labor, capital and the fold; the folding of languages; the German poet, philosopher, and philologist Friedrich Schlegel; grammar; inflections as a pure grammatical formal element; German Romantic philology and the idea of the will of a people; the gathering (&lt;em&gt;rassemblement&lt;/em&gt;) of language and the &lsquo;finite-unlimited&rsquo;; combinatorics and the genetic code; the inter-capture of fragments of codes; and the &lt;em&gt;&Uuml;bermensch&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This dataset includes: four mp3 recordings of the lecture (total time, 2:39:11), an aggregate version of the audio recordings into a single mp3, and the complete French transcription of the recorded lecture in both pdf (30 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 11 mars 1986, les sujets de discussion comprennent: les forces dans les humains; le rapport des forces aux formes; les forces et l&#39;infini; les forces de la finitude: la vie, le langage, le travail, et o&ugrave; ces forces se replient dans les humains; la m&eacute;taphore du pli et du d&eacute;pli chez Foucault; &lt;em&gt;Naissance de la clinique&lt;/em&gt; de Foucault et le regard m&eacute;dical; le naturaliste et zoologue fran&ccedil;ais Georges Cuvier et les embranchements de la vie; les figures du pli et du d&eacute;pli et la vie; Cuvier et la pluralit&eacute; finie des plans d&#39;organisation; le travail au XVIIe si&egrave;cle; l&#39;&eacute;conomiste et philosophe &eacute;cossais Adam Smith et le philosophe allemand Friedrich Engels sur la force de travail; le philosophe et &eacute;conomiste allemand Karl Marx et l&#39;&eacute;conomiste politique britannique David Ricardo sur le travail, le capital et le pli; le pliage des langues; le po&egrave;te, philosophe et philologue allemand Friedrich Schlegel; grammaire; les flexions comme un &eacute;l&eacute;ment formel grammatical pur; la philologie romantique allemande et l&#39;id&eacute;e du vouloir d&#39;un peuple; le rassemblement du langage et le &laquo;fini-illimit&eacute;&raquo;; la combinatoire et le code g&eacute;n&eacute;tique; les inter-captures de fragments de codes; et le Surhomme (&lt;em&gt;&Uuml;bermensch&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
description: Lecture given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze at the University of Paris 8, 11 March 1986. This is lecture 15 of a 25-lecture seminar Deleuze taught between October 1985 and May 1986.