DOI: 10.4231/r7tm78br
title: Foucault: Lecture 6, 26 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 26 November 1985 lecture, topics of discussion include: knowledge (&lt;em&gt;le savoir&lt;/em&gt;) as interlacing, and the heterogeneity of the visible and of the statable (&lt;em&gt;l&#39;&eacute;nonҫable&lt;/em&gt;); the non-relationship of the visible and the statable as shown in Foucault humorously, logically, and historically; the concept of delinquency, the prison, the delinquency-object, and delinquency-illegality; the non-isomorphism between the visible and the statable; the primacy of the statement as determinant; the mutual capture between the visible and the statable; French philosopher Ren&eacute; Descartes and the cogito; Kant, the cogito, receptivity, spontaneity and the schema of the imagination; the schema as a determination of space and time, in accordance with a concept, thus enabling the construction of the object; the classical conception of death; French anatomist and pathologist Marie Fran&ccedil;ois Xavier Bichat and the determination of life, the coextension of death to life, and death as no longer indivisible (&lt;em&gt;ins&eacute;cable&lt;/em&gt;) but disseminated, multiple and partial; Blanchot and &lt;em&gt;The Infinite Conversation&lt;/em&gt;; the image without resemblance; the view, the visible from a distance, and the dream; Blanchot and Foucault; and the cinema and the distribution of audio and of the visual. In the second part of the lecture, Deleuze discusses the fundamental heterogeneity of the visible and the statable in terms of confrontations with: 1) Kant, and the two faculties: receptivity (visibility) and spontaneity (the statement); 2) Blanchot and the idea that &quot;to speak (&lt;em&gt;parler&lt;/em&gt;) is not to see (&lt;em&gt;voir&lt;/em&gt;)&quot;; 3) the cinema, and the gap (&lt;em&gt;faille&lt;/em&gt;) between audio and the visual, between the visible and speech, with consideration of  the French writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras, the German director Hans-J&uuml;rgen Syberberg, and the French filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub; and 4) the work of Roussel.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This dataset includes: four mp3 recordings of the lecture (total time, 2:31:50), an aggregate version of the audio recordings into a single mp3, and the complete French transcription of the recorded lecture in both pdf (28 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 26 novembre 1985, les sujets de discussion comprennent: le savoir comme entrelacement, et l&#39;h&eacute;t&eacute;rog&eacute;n&eacute;it&eacute; du visible et de l&#39;&eacute;nonҫable; le non rapport du visible et de l&#39;&eacute;nonҫable, comme ces montr&eacute; chez Foucault avec humouristiquement, logiquement et historiquement; la notion de d&eacute;linquance, la prison, la d&eacute;linquance-objet, et la d&eacute;linquance-ill&eacute;galisme; le non isomorphisme entre le visible et l&#39;&eacute;nonҫable; le primat de l&#39;&eacute;nonc&eacute; comme d&eacute;terminant; la capture mutuelle entre le visible et l&#39;&eacute;nonҫable; le philosophe fran&ccedil;ais Ren&eacute; Descartes et le cogito; Kant, le cogito, la r&eacute;ceptivit&eacute;, la spontan&eacute;it&eacute; et le sch&eacute;me de l&#39;imagination; le sch&eacute;me comme d&eacute;termination de l&#39;espace et du temps, conform&eacute;ment &agrave; un concept, permettant ainsi la construction de l&#39;objet; la conception classique de la mort; l&#39;anatomiste et pathologiste fran&ccedil;ais Marie Fran&ccedil;ois Xavier Bichat et la d&eacute;termination de la vie, la coextension de la mort &agrave; la vie, et la mort comme n&#39;&eacute;tant plus ins&eacute;cable mais diss&eacute;min&eacute;e, multiple et partielle; Blanchot et son &lt;em&gt;L&#39;entretien infini&lt;/em&gt;; l&#39;image sans ressemblance; la vue, le visible &agrave; distance et le r&ecirc;ve; Blanchot et Foucault; et le cin&eacute;ma et la distribution de l&#39;audio et du visuel. Dans la deuxi&egrave;me partie de la conf&eacute;rence, Deleuze discute de l&#39;h&eacute;t&eacute;rog&eacute;n&eacute;it&eacute; fondamentale du visible et de l&#39;&eacute;nonҫable en termes de confrontations avec: 1) Kant, et les deux facult&eacute;s: r&eacute;ceptivit&eacute; (visibilit&eacute;) et spontan&eacute;it&eacute; (l&#39;&eacute;nonc&eacute;); 2) Blanchot et l&#39;id&eacute;e que &lt;em&gt;parler ce n&#39;est pas voir&lt;/em&gt;; 3) le cin&eacute;ma, et le faille entre l&#39;audio et le visuel, entre le visible et la parole, avec consid&eacute;ration de l&#39;&eacute;crivain et cin&eacute;aste fran&ccedil;ais Marguerite Duras, du r&eacute;alisateur allemand Hans-J&uuml;rgen Syberberg et du cin&eacute;aste fran&ccedil;ais Jean-Marie Straub; et 4) l&rsquo;&oelig;uvre de Roussel.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Lecture given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze at the University of Paris 8, 26 November 1985. This is lecture 6 of a 25-lecture seminar Deleuze taught between October 1985 and May 1986.