A Thousand Plateaus I, RAI-3 Recordings, Lecture 2, 9 December 1975

<p><em>The Deleuze Seminars</em> 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.</p>

<p>Following the publication of <em>Anti-Oedipus</em> in 1972, Deleuze continues to develop the proliferation of concepts that his collaboration with Guattari had yielded. Throughout the 1970s, Deleuze and Guattari’s interest in expanding these concepts continues, eventually producing the sequel, <em>A Thousand Plateaus</em>.</p>

<p>The 1975-1976 seminar sessions were filmed by one of his students, Marielle Burkhalter, as part of her masters project, “Filming Philosophy as it Happens.” Enrico Ghezzi acquired the videos for broadcast on the RAI-3 cinema program “Fuori Orario,” after inviting Burkhalter to screen them at a festival he co-curated. Marielle Burkhalter, along with Stavroula Bellos, would eventually become the director of the L’Association Siècle Deleuzien and oversaw the French transcriptions of Deleuze’s seminars at the Paris 8 “Voix de Gilles Deleuze” website (http://www2.univ-paris8.fr/deleuze/).</p>

<p>In this group of lectures, Deleuze offers the multi-faceted focus of the semester’s work, mainly to distinguish forms of faciality, encompassing black-holes/white-walls, faces and landscapes, facial power-relations, redundancy, molecular multiplicity, the rhizome, the refrain, and courtly love. As none of the films was marked chronologically, the order of the successive seminars was determined based on the content provided in the videos, notably Deleuze’s course organization that followed successive chapters from <em>A Thousand Plateaus. </em>Besides the content as one guidepost as well as the physical disposition of classroom details, the chronologically first video was the one titled "Deleuze su molteplicità molare e molteplicità moleculare" followed<o:p></o:p> by the two successive four-hour segments, titled “Il Senso in meno”. Furthermore, despite no precise dates provided, a sequence of dates was extrapolated before and after session 7 based on comments by an Iranian student announcing during that session that a demonstration would occur later that day, 3 February 1976.</p>

<p>In session 2, the 9 December 1975 session (date approximate), the film corresponds to the first segment of the “Il Senso in Meno” I recording, on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emORIIs8esw&t=10347s, corresponding to time stamp 6:54 to 1:04:57. In a dual lecture including both Deleuze and Guattari, the authors introduce different terms developed, notably, in <em>A Thousand Plateaus</em>, plateaus 4 and 5 (on linguistics and semiotics). This session’s continuity is unfortunately marred by numerous filming breaks causing frequent jumps in the flow of ideas. Deleuze proposes a rhizomatic system without black holes and yielding a semiotic polyvocality, allowing multiple expressive elements (verbal, bodily, dance, sexual), hence not informatics based but diagrammatic. Deleuze suggests that a different conception of power is required, and then he shifts position to draw a schema of three heads (information, noise, redundancy), an orders-command schema, concluding that this first system inscribes itself on a semiotic wall, that of signifiance, from which poets and writers attempt to flee. To this redundancy of frequency, he contrasts a redundancy of resonance, that he links to linguists’ use (notably, Émile Benveniste) of the term “shifter”, e.g., redundancy of the personal pronoun. This difference (to resonance) entails distinctions between the subject of enunciation and the subject of the enunciated, which Deleuze asserts are redundancies creating a vortex, a true hole.</p>

<p>The French transcription and subsequent English translation were developed for the Deleuze Seminars directly from the RAI-3 recording, located at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emORIIs8esw&t=10347s. This dataset includes two files: a revised French transcription and new English translation in odt format.</p>

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<p>Les Séminaires de Deleuze sont une collection d'enregistrements audio, de transcriptions et de traductions en anglais et de documents complémentaires des conférences que le philosophe français Gilles Deleuze a donné lors de sa carrière à l'Université de Paris 8.</p>

<p>Dans la séance 2, le 9 décembre 1975 (date approximative), avec l’aide des participants et avec Félix Guattari dans l’assistance, Deleuze introduit des concepts différents produits avec Guattari dans leur travail qui résultera, en 1980, à la publication de <em>Mille plateaux, </em>par exemple, la redondance, la territorialité, la visagéïté, et le langage comme un système d’ordre.</p>