DOI: 10.4231/sask-3962
title: Anti-Oedipus II, Lecture 4, 28 May 1973

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;In his third year at Vincennes, Deleuze continues to expand the concepts developed for &lt;em&gt;Anti-Oedipus&lt;/em&gt; with the long view of the second volume, &lt;em&gt;A Thousand Plateaus&lt;/em&gt;, in progress. Moreover, alongside these sessions, Deleuze alone and with Guattari develop texts for publication that correspond directly to the seminar: Deleuze&rsquo;s conference presentation, &lsquo;Nomadic Thought&rsquo; for the July 1972 conference &lsquo;Nietzsche aujourd&rsquo;hui?&rsquo; at Cerisy-la-Salle is published in 1973; second, Deleuze and Guattari&rsquo;s &lsquo;Bilan-Programme pour machines d&eacute;sirantes&rsquo; appears in &lt;em&gt;Minuit &lt;/em&gt;2 (January 1973), and then is included as an appendix to the revised edition of &lt;em&gt;Anti-Oedipus &lt;/em&gt;(1975).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In session 4, 28 May 1973, which seems to follow directly from the previous one (despite the brief hiatus), Deleuze continues discussing how the body without organs is constituted, created, with multiplicities, flows, figures of content and expression, all entering into machinic assemblages. Then, referring to three authors&rsquo; work (Baudrillard, Jean-Pierre Faye and Foucault), he considers the production of statements, in the aesthetics of art auctions (Baudrillard), in terms of madness and the medical clinic starting in the nineteenth century (Foucault), and in the milieu of Nazi statements (Faye). Deleuze returns to a more detailed reading of Baudrillard and, discussing aspects of Baudrillard&rsquo;s key points that he cannot fully understand, Deleuze concludes that for Baudrillard, it is castration, at the heart of desire, that produces statements, with the subject traversed by ambivalence, a cleavage within the subject producing statements.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;No recording of this session is available currently, nor are the French transcripts at WebDeleuze of adequate quality. Hence the original French transcript provided here, in Open Data Text (odt) format, is from the Le Terrier web site. A revised French transcription of the WebDeleuze transcription and its new English translation in odt format is also included. [WebDeleuze was founded by Richard Pinhas -- a student in Deleuze's seminars -- who, with the Deleuze family's support, developed transcripts and translations of many of the seminars. Le Terrier is a multimedia site providing a small but important set of Deleuze transcripts, as well as documents by numerous other writers and artists, at http://www.le-terrier.net/index2.html.]&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Les S&eacute;minaires de Deleuze 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;Dans la s&eacute;ance 4, le 28 mai 1973, qui semble suivre directement la pr&eacute;c&eacute;dente (malgr&eacute; la br&egrave;ve interruption), Deleuze continue de discuter de la mani&egrave;re dont le corps sans organes est constitu&eacute;, cr&eacute;&eacute;, avec des multiplicit&eacute;s, des flux, des figures de contenu et d&rsquo;expression, le tout entrant dans des assemblages machiniques. Puis, se r&eacute;f&eacute;rant au travail de trois auteurs (Baudrillard, Jean-Pierre Faye et Foucault), il consid&egrave;re la production d&rsquo;&eacute;nonc&eacute;s, dans l&rsquo;esth&eacute;tique des ventes aux ench&egrave;res d&rsquo;art (Baudrillard), en termes de folie et de clinique m&eacute;dicale &agrave; partir du XIXe si&egrave;cle (Foucault), et dans le milieu des &eacute;nonc&eacute;s nazis (Faye). Deleuze revient &agrave; une lecture plus d&eacute;taill&eacute;e de Baudrillard et, examinant des points cl&eacute;s chez Baudrillard qu&rsquo;il ne peut pas enti&egrave;rement comprendre, Deleuze conclut que pour Baudrillard, c&rsquo;est la castration, au c&oelig;ur du d&eacute;sir, qui produit des &eacute;nonc&eacute;s, avec le sujet travers&eacute; par l&rsquo;ambivalence, un clivage au sein du sujet produisant des &eacute;nonc&eacute;s.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Seminar with only 5 sessions available, given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze at the Vincennes University, Winter-Spring 1973. The fourth lecture available was presented on 28 May 1973.