ENG 5998 Spring 2020 Gontarski
This class follows the seminars that Gilles Deleuze delivered on the subject of Michel Foucault after the latter’s death and on the way to his publishing them in shortened form as Foucault in 1986, English in 1988. The lectures were delivered at the Université de Paris VIII to SRO audiences and are now available on line through Purdue University (see below). The Foucault book, a severe condensation of these lectures, outlines Deleuze’s major topics in this “crucial examination of the philosophical foundations and principal themes of Foucault's work, providing a rigorous engagement with Foucault's views on knowledge, punishment, power, and the nature of subjectivity.” These lectures discuss in detail William S. Burroughs’s influence on both philosophers with his critique of our “control societies,” a term they adopt from Burroughs. Furthermore, in Deleuze’s lectures On Cinema at La Fémis (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers de l'Image et du Son) in 1987 (published in Deleuze 2007, 326) he notes. “There have been, of course, various remnants of disciplinary societies for years, but we already know we are in societies of a different type that should be called, using Burroughs' term—and Foucault had a very deep admiration for Burroughs—control societies.”
Readings:
Burroughs, William S. (2011, originally 1961). The Soft Machine. New York: Grove Press.
Morar, Nicolae, Thomas Nail and Daniel W, Smith, eds. (2016). Between Deleuze and Foucault. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
http://resolver.ebscohost.com.proxy.lib.fsu.edu/openurl?sid=jstor%3ajstor&genre=book&title=Between+Deleuze+and+Foucault&isbn=9781474415071&eisbn=9781474415095&site=ftf-live
https://www.academia.edu/6923084/Special_Issue_on_Foucault_and_Deleuze_Introduction
Schönher, Mathias (2015). "Deleuze, a Split with Foucault." Le foucaldien, 1/1 (17 October) [Open access].
Seminars of Gilles Deleuze's audio course lectures on Foucault, in collaboration with Purdue University and the Université de Paris VIII at La Voix de Deleuze. Material available at the website, Between Deleuze and Foucault, or:
https://www.cla.purdue.edu/research/deleuze/Course%20Transcriptions.html