DOI: 10.4231/r7v1230r
title: Foucault: Lecture 14, 04 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 04 March 1986 lecture, topics of discussion include: the theme of the death of man in Foucault&#39;s &lt;em&gt;The Order of Things&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Les mot es les choses&lt;/em&gt;); the relation of forces as places of perpetual mutations; form as a compound of forces; the modes of existence; the order of infinity; Classical Thought, the infinite Universe and the loss of the center; Spinoza; Mercantilism: currency, the exchangeability of wealth, tables (&lt;em&gt;tableaux&lt;/em&gt;) and deployment, the cost of the exchange; general grammar; the Kantian revolution: finitude becomes constituent; the component forces in man: life, work, language, and outside forces (&lt;em&gt;forces du dehors&lt;/em&gt;); the nineteenth century and the form &lsquo;Man&rsquo;; the age of the machines; the man-machine system; the age of silicon (following those of watchmaking and carbon); German philosopher and anthropologist Ludwig Feuerbach and the death of God, and the effect of this on human identity; and Nietzsche, the death of man, forces, 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, 2:20:47), an aggregate version of the audio recordings into a single mp3, and the complete French transcription of the recorded lecture in both pdf (27 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 4 mars 1986, les sujets de discussion incluent: le th&egrave;me de la mort de l&#39;Homme dans &lt;em&gt;Les mot es les choses&lt;/em&gt; de Foucault; les rapports des forces comme lieux de mutations perp&eacute;tuelles; forme comme un compos&eacute; de forces; les modes d&#39;existence; l&#39;ordre d&#39;infinit&eacute;; la Pens&eacute;e Classique, l&#39;Univers infini et la perte du centre; Spinoza; le Mercantilisme: la monnaie, l&#39;&eacute;changeabilit&eacute; des richesse, les tableaux et le d&eacute;ploiement, le co&ucirc;t de l&#39;&eacute;change; la grammaire g&eacute;n&eacute;rale; la r&eacute;volution kantienne: la finitude devient constituante; les forces composantes dans l&#39;homme: vie, travail, langage et forces du Dehors; le XIXe si&egrave;cle et la forme &lsquo;Homme&rsquo;; l&#39;&acirc;ge des machines; le syst&egrave;me homme-machine; l&#39;&acirc;ge du silicium (&agrave;pres ceux de l&#39;horlogerie et du carbone); le philosophe et anthropologue allemand Ludwig Feuerbach et la mort de Dieu, et l&#39;effet de ceci sur l&#39;identit&eacute; humaine; et Nietzsche, la mort de l&#39;Homme, les forces 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, 04 March 1986. This is lecture 14 of a 25-lecture seminar Deleuze taught between October 1985 and May 1986.