A Thousand Plateaus I – Deleuze at Paris 8 (video links)

October 1, 1975 to March 2, 1976

Deleuze’s 1975-1976 seminars 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 programme “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 Voix de Gilles Deleuze website at the University of Paris 8.

Links to a number of these recordings that are available on YouTube are provided below, each of which includes subtitles in Italian. We are grateful to those who have uploaded these videos.

We have ordered the video material chronologically and divided it into 3 categories, providing short titles describing the topics covered for general orientation.

The first category (A) refers to the aforementioned seminars that were filmed at Paris-8 Vincennes in 1975-76, while Deleuze and Guattari were working on specific “plateaus” within what would become “Mille Plateaux”. We have clues for approximate dates and one specific indication to help situate these. First, in the session (or sessions) under the Molar and Molecular Multiplicities recording, Deleuze addresses material in A Thousand Plateaus that precedes topics discussed in the subsequent Il Senso in Meno recordings. Then, an Iranian student speaking in session 7 states this session’s date as February 3, 1976. Thus, for the sessions 2 through 6, we have provided approximate dates for successive Tuesdays that follow session 1 and precede February 3, while two sessions, 4 & 5, that occur on the same day, receive the same date. For the sessions following session 7, we have provided approximate dates corresponding to subsequent Tuesdays while 1) making adjustments for a missing session that preceded session 8; and 2) including under March 2 both session 9 (all three segments included in the recording) and session 10.

The second category (B) includes seminars from 1980-87, after the campus of Vincennes had been demolished and relocated to St. Denis. The third category (C) features fragments and short clips from the Il Senso in Meno recordings, which we have ordered sequentially and have also provided time stamps to the transcriptions.

Deleuze in Seminar — Deleuze in his seminar at the University of Paris VIII, Vincennes, in 1975.

A. Deleuze at Paris 8-Vincennes, 1975-76

See above for our explanation of these three film presentations of Deleuze’s seminar:

deleuze su molteplicità molare e molteplicità molecolare (1:40:51)

Il Senso In Meno 1 Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari Vincennes, 1975 1976 Parti 1 2 3 4 5 [ISM I below] (4:00:00)

Il Senso In Meno 2 Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari Vincennes, 1975 1976 Parti 6 7 8 9 [ISM 2 below] (4:21:40)

B. Deleuze at Paris 8-St.Denis, 1980-87

The personal pronoun “I” (1980) (video link only partial), with transcript and new translation located in the second Anti-Oedipus and Other Reflections Seminar, 3 June 1980: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x36nts9

Deleuze sur Hegel (1980) follows the preceding clip, with transcript and translation located in the second Anti-Oedipus and Other Reflections Seminar, 3 June 1980.

On Leibniz (1986) — Session 3 (18 Nov 1986), transcript and translation located in the Leibniz and the Baroque seminar, 1986-87: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEg4Tc40rWM

On Harmony (1987) — Session 20 (2 June 1987), transcript and translation located in the Leibniz and the Baroque seminar, Deleuze’s final session before retirement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JBMX6uECxc

C. Various clips that are segments from the longer videos included above in A, Il Senso in Meno I and II, abbreviated below respectively ISM I and ISM II; the second time mark provided corresponds to the short alternate segments taken from ISM I located on YouTube as “Deleuze et Guattari a Vincennes” and under the French transcript link for each session:

Gilles Deleuze, Pierre-Félix Guattari a Vincennes (1975-1976) (22:30) — A brief clip near the start of ISM I, ATP I.2 (time stamp: 34:00-57:00/ 27:00-50:00)

Félix Guattari – Université de Vincennes 1975 (9:56) — The opening (in progress) of the first session in ISM I, ATP I.2 (time stamp: 7:00-16:56/ 0:00-9:56)

Deleuze sur le langage (1:19) — Very brief segment drawn from the first part of ISM I, ATP I.2 (time stamp: 39:00-41:00/32:00-34:00)

Deleuze sur la musique (1:04) — Very brief segment drawn from the first part of ISM I, ATP I.2 (time stamp 56:20-57:24/49:24-50:28)

Deleuze et le roman (9:35) — Segment drawn from the beginning of the fourth part of ISM I, ATP I.5 (time stamp: 8:00-17:34/1:00-10:34)

Deleuze – Boulez – Berg (5:36) — A stand-alone segment NOT drawn from Deleuze’s seminar and undated, seemingly filmed at his home with friends listening. No transcript or translation is currently available.

Gilles Deleuze – Morale ed etica (Lezioni a Vincennes, 1975/76) — A separate brief interview with Richard Pinhas (7:03). No transcript or translation is currently available.

Gilles Deleuze à Vincennes, 1 (sub. ITA) (9:47) — First of 15 successive segments drawn from ISM I, ATP I.2 (time stamp: 23:24-33:06/16:25-26:03)

Gilles Deleuze à Vincennes, 2 (sub. ITA) (9:51) — Second of 15 successive segments drawn from ISM I, ATP I.2 (time stamp: 33:07-42:53/26:04-35:59)

Gilles Deleuze à Vincennes, 3 (sub. ITA) (4:36) — Third of 15 successive segments drawn from ISM I, ATP I.2 (time stamp: 42:50- 47:17/ 35:50- 40:23)

Gilles Deleuze à Vincennes, 4 (sub. ITA) (9:27) — Fourth of 15 successive segments drawn from ISM I, ATP I.2 (time stamp: 47:05-56:15/40:15-49:30)

Gilles Deleuze à Vincennes, 5 (sub. ITA) (9:56) — Fifth of 15 successive segments drawn from ISM I, end of ATP I.2 & start of ATP I.3 (time stamp: ISM I 56:20-1:06:10/ATP I.2 49:25-58:03 & ATP I.3 0:00-1:09)

Gilles Deleuze à Vincennes, 6 (sub. ITA) (9:50) — Sixth of 15 successive segments drawn from ISM I, ATP I.3 (time stamp: 1:06:11-1:16:00/1:10- 11:00)

Gilles Deleuze à Vincennes, 7 (sub. ITA) (9:47) — Seventh of 15 successive segments drawn from ISM I, ATP I.3 (time stamp: 1:16:01- 1:25:49/11:01-20:55)

Gilles Deleuze à Vincennes, 8 (sub. ITA) (9:49) — Eighth of 15 successive segments drawn from ISM I, ATP I.3 (time stamp: 1:25:48-1:35:35/20:54-30:30)

Gilles Deleuze à Vincennes, 9 (sub. ITA) (9:58) — Ninth of 15 successive segments from ISM I, end of ATP 1.3 & start of ATP I.4 (time stamp: ISM I 1:35:32-1:45:12/ATP I.3 30:27-37:01 & ATP I.4 0:00-3:20)

Gilles Deleuze à Vincennes, 10 (sub. ITA) (9:48) — Tenth of 15 successive segments from ISM I, ATP I.4 (time stamp: 1:45-23-1:55:05/ 3.26-13:01)

Gilles Deleuze à Vincennes, 11 (sub. ITA) (9:52) — Eleventh of 15 successive segments from ISM I, ATP I.4 (time stamp: 1:54:46-2:04:37/ 12:40-22:)

Gilles Deleuze à Vincennes, 12 (sub. ITA) (9:35) — Twelfth of 15 successive segments from ISM I, ATP I.4 (time stamp: 2:04:37-2:14:07/ 22:30-32:05)

Gilles Deleuze à Vincennes, 13 (sub. ITA) (9:52) — Thirteenth of 15 successive segments from ISM I, ATP I.4 (time stamp: 2:14:03-2:23:53/ 32:00-41:50)

Gilles Deleuze à Vincennes, 14 (sub. ITA) (9:54) — Fourteenth of 15 successive segments from ISM I, ATP I.4 (time stamp: 2:23:50-2:33 38/ 41:46-51:38)

Gilles Deleuze à Vincennes, 15 (sub. ITA) (9:56) — Fifteenth of 15 successive segments from ISM I, end of ATP I.4 & start of ATP I.5 (time stamp: 2:33:31-2:43:23/ATP I.4 51:30-56:33 & ATP I.5 0:00-4:35)

Gilles Deleuze, Lecture, Mille Plateaux 1 (7:00) — First of two successive segments drawn from part 3 of ISM II, the opening seven minutes of ATP I.9 (time stamp 2:23:29-2:29:00)

Gilles Deleuze, Lecture, Mille Plateaux 2 (9:26) — Second of two successive segments drawn from part 3 of ISM II, the next almost ten minutes of ATP I.9 (time stamp: 2:29:00-2:38:26)

Gilles Deleuze – Vincennes 1975-76 (compilation) — A long segment, almost the entirety of ISM II, beginning at 1:13:55, with the student debate in the middle of ATP I.8, and then including ATP I.9 & 10. Although this particular clip seems to begin at 1:28:40, the viewer can back up to the start point. (3:05:57)

Gilles Deleuze à Vincennes 1975 (9) italian sub (51:51) — Segment drawn from the last half of ATP I.9, including the 36-minute debate about expelling from the session a student who apparently accused Deleuze of plagiarism — in ISM 2 (time stamp: 2:53:55-3:45:46)

It should be noted that the 1975-76 seminars in particular include a number of interventions both from Félix Guattari and from students, some of whom the translators, Graeme Thomson and Silvia Maglioni, were able to identify during the preparation of their film “Facs of Life” (2009) — the starting point for which was the Vincennes video archive.

Moreover, while each of the recordings available on YouTube include subtitles in Italian, our new transcript of these recording and the revised translations present to the extent possible (given many inaudible segments) the actual presentations and debates that we have transcribed.

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Lectures in this Seminar

	A Thousand Plateaus I – Deleuze at Paris 8 (video links) / 01 Lecture Date: November 18, 1975
	A Thousand Plateaus I – Deleuze at Paris 8 (video links) / 02 Lecture Date: December 9, 1975
	A Thousand Plateaus I – Deleuze at Paris 8 (video links) / 03 Lecture Date: December 16, 1975
	A Thousand Plateaus I – Deleuze at Paris 8 (video links) / 04 Lecture Date: January 13, 1976
	A Thousand Plateaus I – Deleuze at Paris 8 (video links) / 05 Lecture Date: January 13, 1976
	A Thousand Plateaus I – Deleuze at Paris 8 (video links) / 06 Lecture Date: January 20, 1976
	A Thousand Plateaus I – Deleuze at Paris 8 (video links) / 07 Lecture Date: February 3, 1976
	A Thousand Plateaus I – Deleuze at Paris 8 (video links) / 08 Lecture Date: February 24, 1976
	A Thousand Plateaus I – Deleuze at Paris 8 (video links) / 09 Lecture Date: March 2, 1976
	A Thousand Plateaus I – Deleuze at Paris 8 (video links) / 10 Lecture Date: March 2, 1976

A Thousand Plateaus I – Deleuze at Paris 8 (video links)

A Thousand Plateaus V: The State Apparatus and War-Machines II

November 6, 1979 to March 25, 1980

Following publication of Anti-Oedipus in 1972, Deleuze continues to develop the proliferation of concepts that his collaboration with Guattari had yielded. As part of this process of expanding concepts in order to produce the sequel of Capitalism & Schizophrenia, A Thousand Plateaus, this series of 13 lectures on “The State Apparatus and War Machines” constitutes the major seminar of 1979-80 and Deleuze’s penultimate consideration of these concepts. Deleuze first considers material begun during the previous year’s seminar, material corresponding to plateaus 12 (1227: Treatise on Nomadology – The War Machine), 13 (7000 B.C.: Apparatus of Capture), and 14 (1440: The Smooth and the Striated).

Deleuze then returns to the history of philosophy with five sessions on Leibniz, after which he concludes the academic year, at his students’ request, with two final sessions of reflections on Anti-Oedipus.

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	A Thousand Plateaus V: The State Apparatus and War-Machines II / 01 Lecture Date: November 6, 1979
	A Thousand Plateaus V: The State Apparatus and War-Machines II / 02 Lecture Date: November 13, 1979
	A Thousand Plateaus V: The State Apparatus and War-Machines II / 03 Lecture Date: November 20, 1979
	A Thousand Plateaus V: The State Apparatus and War-Machines II / 04 Lecture Date: November 27, 1979
	A Thousand Plateaus V: The State Apparatus and War-Machines II / 05 Lecture Date: January 15, 1980
	A Thousand Plateaus V: The State Apparatus and War-Machines II / 06 Lecture Date: January 22, 1980
	A Thousand Plateaus V: The State Apparatus and War-Machines II / 07 Lecture Date: January 29, 1980
	A Thousand Plateaus V: The State Apparatus and War-Machines II / 08 Lecture Date: February 5, 1980
	A Thousand Plateaus V: The State Apparatus and War-Machines II / 09 Lecture Date: February 26, 1980
	A Thousand Plateaus V: The State Apparatus and War-Machines II / 10 Lecture Date: March 4, 1980
	A Thousand Plateaus V: The State Apparatus and War-Machines II / 11 Lecture Date: March 11, 1980
	A Thousand Plateaus V: The State Apparatus and War-Machines II / 12 Lecture Date: March 18, 1980
	A Thousand Plateaus V: The State Apparatus and War-Machines II / 13 Lecture Date: March 25, 1980

A Thousand Plateaus V: The State Apparatus and War-Machines II

Cinema and Thought

October 30, 1984 to June 18, 1985

As he starts the fourth year of his reflections on relations between cinema and philosophy, Deleuze explains that the method of thought has two aspects, temporal and spatial, presupposing an implicit image of thought, one that is variable, with history. He proposes the chronotope, as space-time, as the implicit image of thought, one riddled with philosophical cries, and that the problematic of this fourth seminar on cinema will be precisely the theme of “what is philosophy?’, undertaken from the perspective of this encounter between the image of thought and the cinematographic image.

For archival purposes, the English translations are based on the original transcripts from Paris 8, all of which have been revised with reference to the BNF recordings available thanks to Hidenobu Suzuki, and with the generous assistance of Marc Haas.

Lectures in this Seminar

	Cinema and Thought / 01 Lecture Date: October 30, 1984
	Cinema and Thought / 02 Lecture Date: November 6, 1984
	Cinema and Thought / 03 Lecture Date: November 13, 1984
	Cinema and Thought / 04 Lecture Date: November 20, 1984
	Cinema and Thought / 05 Lecture Date: November 27, 1984
	Cinema and Thought / 06 Lecture Date: December 11, 1984
	Cinema and Thought / 07 Lecture Date: December 18, 1984
	Cinema and Thought / 08 Lecture Date: January 8, 1985
	Cinema and Thought / 09 Lecture Date: January 15, 1985
	Cinema and Thought / 10 Lecture Date: January 22, 1985
	Cinema and Thought / 11 Lecture Date: January 29, 1985
	Cinema and Thought / 12 Lecture Date: February 5, 1985
	Cinema and Thought / 13 Lecture Date: February 26, 1985
	Cinema and Thought / 14 Lecture Date: March 5, 1985
	Cinema and Thought / 15 Lecture Date: March 12, 1985
	Cinema and Thought / 16 Lecture Date: March 19, 1985
	Cinema and Thought / 17 Lecture Date: March 26, 1985
	Cinema and Thought / 18 Lecture Date: April 16, 1985
	Cinema and Thought / 19 Lecture Date: April 23, 1985
	Cinema and Thought / 20 Lecture Date: April 30, 1985
	Cinema and Thought / 21 Lecture Date: May 7, 1985
	Cinema and Thought / 22 Lecture Date: May 14, 1985
	Cinema and Thought / 23 Lecture Date: May 21, 1985
	Cinema and Thought / 24 Lecture Date: May 28, 1985
	Cinema and Thought / 25 Lecture Date: June 4, 1985
	Cinema and Thought / 26 Lecture Date: June 18, 1985

A Thousand Plateaus III: War and the State

October 1, 1977 to February 23, 1978

Following publication of Anti-Oedipus 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, A Thousand Plateaus. Given the title that Deleuze provided for this seminar, ‘War and the State’, the seminar’s focus is clearly on material developed in plateau 12, ‘Treatise on Nomadology: The War Machine’.

Only one recording has surfaced as yet for the 1977-78 seminar, and documentation from the Paris 8 archives (specifically, the 1977-78 philosophy department course list) indicates that Deleuze offered an additional seminar in the “second semester”, on Spinoza, to which the lecture on ‘continuous variation’ may very well belong, a topic that also appears frequently in A Thousand Plateaus. The lecture of 24 January 1978 is an important example, as Deleuze notes, of his return to the history of philosophy by considering continuous variation in light of Spinoza’s philosophy, but this return continues in the other separate seminar to which Deleuze devoted four sessions in the spring, a seminar on Kant, developed here in a separate dossier.

Under this seminar heading, we also include the talk that Deleuze presented on a panel at IRCAM with Pierre Boulez, Roland Barthes and other artists and writers, 23 February 1978.

The transcripts and translations — at WebDeleuze as well as in the two volumes Deux régimes de fous and Two Regimes of Madness — vary considerably from Deleuze’s actual presentation in the IRCAM session. Hence our different versions in the second session.

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	A Thousand Plateaus III: War and the State / 1 Lecture Date: January 24, 1978
	A Thousand Plateaus III: War and the State / 2 Lecture Date: February 23, 1978

A Thousand Plateaus III: War and the State

Leibniz and the Baroque

October 28, 1986 to June 2, 1987

In his introductory remarks to this annual seminar (on 28 October 1986), Deleuze stated that he would have liked to devote this seminar to the theme “What is philosophy?”, but that he “[didn’t] dare take it on” since “it’s such a sacred subject”. However, the seminar that he was undertaking on Leibniz and the Baroque instead “is nearly an introduction to ‘What is philosophy?’” Thus, the 1986-87 seminar has this dual reading, all the more significant in that, unknown to those listening to Deleuze (and perhaps to Deleuze himself), this would be the final seminar of his teaching career.

Deleuze planned the seminar in two segments: under the title “Leibniz as Baroque Philosopher,” he presented the initial operating concepts on Leibniz, notably on the fold. Circumstances during fall 1986 limited this segment to four sessions with an unexpected final session in the first meeting of 1987 (6 January). For the second segment, Deleuze chose the global title “Principles and Freedom”, a segment consisting of fifteen sessions lasting to the final one on 2 June.

The transcriptions into French and corresponding translations into English were made possible through access to transcripts initially available from Web Deleuze (created by Richard Pinhas) and through access to the recordings available from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF), faithfully produced over a decade by one participant in Deleuze’s seminars, Hidenobu Suzuki. According to François Dosse in Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives (Columbia University Press, 2011), Suzuki “becomes an institution all to himself”, to whom Deleuze would refer colleagues if they weren’t able to attend one of the sessions.

The following sessions’ translations and transcriptions are original to this site: sessions 1 (Oct 28, 1986), 2 (Nov 4, 1986), 3 (Nov 18, 1986), 5 (Jan 6, 1987), 6 (Jan 13, 1987), 9 (Feb 3, 1987), 11 (Mar 3, 1987), 15 (Apr 24, 1987), 16 (May 5, 1987), and 20 (2 June 1987). All other translations and transcriptions are developed and augmented based on transcripts developed at WebDeleuze from the recordings available at the BNF thanks to Hidenobu Suzuki.

On 17 March 1987, in the midst of this seminar, Deleuze travelled to the Fondation Bordeaux Université to present his talk “Qu’est-ce que l’acte de création” (“What is the Creative Act”), which can be viewed here (and with English subtitles, here).

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Lectures in this Seminar

	Leibniz and the Baroque / 01 Lecture Date: October 28, 1986
	Leibniz and the Baroque / 02 Lecture Date: November 4, 1986
	Leibniz and the Baroque / 03 Lecture Date: November 18, 1986
	Leibniz and the Baroque / 04 Lecture Date: December 16, 1986
	Leibniz and the Baroque / 05 Lecture Date: January 6, 1987
	Leibniz and the Baroque / 06 Lecture Date: January 13, 1987
	Leibniz and the Baroque / 07 Lecture Date: January 20, 1987
	Leibniz and the Baroque / 08 Lecture Date: January 27, 1987
	Leibniz and the Baroque / 09 Lecture Date: February 3, 1987
	Leibniz and the Baroque / 10 Lecture Date: February 24, 1987
	Leibniz and the Baroque / 11 Lecture Date: March 3, 1987
	Leibniz and the Baroque / 12 Lecture Date: March 10, 1987
	Leibniz and the Baroque / 13 Lecture Date: March 17, 1987
	Leibniz and the Baroque / 14 Lecture Date: April 7, 1987
	Leibniz and the Baroque / 15 Lecture Date: April 28, 1987
	Leibniz and the Baroque / 16 Lecture Date: May 5, 1987
	Leibniz and the Baroque / 17 Lecture Date: May 12, 1987
	Leibniz and the Baroque / 18 Lecture Date: May 19, 1987
	Leibniz and the Baroque / 19 Lecture Date: May 26, 1987
	Leibniz and the Baroque / 20 Lecture Date: June 2, 1987

Cinema, Truth and Time: the Falsifier

November 1, 1983 to June 12, 1984

In contrast to his rather apologetic return at the start of year 2 to the Cinema material discussed in year 1, Deleuze commences year 3 with a forthright proposal to discuss the intersection of cinema with the theme of truth, time and the falsifier. Adopting this topic, that constitutes the focus of chapter 6 in The Time-Image, means that Deleuze intends to situate these thematics within the broader framework of the concepts introduced in years 1 & 2 as well as those that inform his development in The Time-Image.

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Lectures in this Seminar

	Cinema, Truth and Time: the Falsifier / 01 Lecture Date: November 8, 1983
	Cinema, Truth and Time: the Falsifier / 02 Lecture Date: November 22, 1983
	Cinema, Truth and Time: the Falsifier / 03 Lecture Date: November 29, 1983
	Cinema, Truth and Time: the Falsifier / 04 Lecture Date: December 6, 1983
	Cinema, Truth and Time: the Falsifier / 05 Lecture Date: December 13, 1983
	Cinema, Truth and Time: the Falsifier / 06 Lecture Date: December 20, 1983
	Cinema, Truth and Time: the Falsifier / 07 Lecture Date: January 10, 1984
	Cinema, Truth and Time: the Falsifier / 08 Lecture Date: January 17, 1984
	Cinema, Truth and Time: the Falsifier / 09 Lecture Date: January 24, 1984
	Cinema, Truth and Time: the Falsifier / 10 Lecture Date: January 31, 1984
	Cinema, Truth and Time: the Falsifier / 11 Lecture Date: February 7, 1984
	Cinema, Truth and Time: the Falsifier / 12 Lecture Date: February 28, 1984
	Cinema, Truth and Time: the Falsifier / 13 Lecture Date: March 13, 1984
	Cinema, Truth and Time: the Falsifier / 14 Lecture Date: March 20, 1984
	Cinema, Truth and Time: the Falsifier / 15 Lecture Date: March 27, 1984
	Cinema, Truth and Time: the Falsifier / 16 Lecture Date: April 17, 1984
	Cinema, Truth and Time: the Falsifier / 17 Lecture Date: April 24, 1984
	Cinema, Truth and Time: the Falsifier / 18 Lecture Date: May 15, 1984
	Cinema, Truth and Time: the Falsifier / 19 Lecture Date: May 22, 1984
	Cinema, Truth and Time: the Falsifier / 20 Lecture Date: May 29, 1984
	Cinema, Truth and Time: the Falsifier / 21 Lecture Date: June 5, 1984
	Cinema, Truth and Time: the Falsifier / 22 Lecture Date: June 12, 1984

Cinema: The Movement-Image

November 1, 1981 to June 1, 1982

In the first year of Deleuze’s consideration of cinema and philosophy, he develops an alternative to the psychoanalytic and semiological approaches to film studies by drawing from Bergson’s theses on perception and C.S. Peirce’s classification of images and signs. While he devotes this first year predominantly to what he considers to be the primary characteristic of cinema of the first half of the 20th century, the movement-image, he finishes the year by emphasizing the importance of the post-World War II shift toward the domination of the time-image in cinema.

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Lectures in this Seminar

	Cinema: The Movement-Image / 01 Lecture Date: November 10, 1981
	Cinema: The Movement-Image / 02 Lecture Date: November 17, 1981
	Cinema: The Movement-Image / 03 Lecture Date: November 24, 1981
	Cinema: The Movement-Image / 04 Lecture Date: December 1, 1981
	Cinema: The Movement-Image / 05 Lecture Date: January 5, 1982
	Cinema: The Movement-Image / 06 Lecture Date: January 12, 1982
	Cinema: The Movement-Image / 07 Lecture Date: January 19, 1982
	Cinema: The Movement-Image / 08 Lecture Date: January 26, 1982
	Cinema: The Movement-Image / 09 Lecture Date: February 2, 1982
	Cinema: The Movement-Image / 10 Lecture Date: February 23, 1982
	Cinema: The Movement-Image / 11 Lecture Date: March 2, 1982
	Cinema: The Movement-Image / 12 Lecture Date: March 9, 1982
	Cinema: The Movement-Image / 13 Lecture Date: March 16, 1982
	Cinema: The Movement-Image / 14 Lecture Date: March 23, 1982
	Cinema: The Movement-Image / 15 Lecture Date: April 20, 1982
	Cinema: The Movement-Image / 16 Lecture Date: April 27, 1982
	Cinema: The Movement-Image / 17 Lecture Date: May 4, 1982
	Cinema: The Movement-Image / 18 Lecture Date: May 11, 1982
	Cinema: The Movement-Image / 19 Lecture Date: May 18, 1982
	Cinema: The Movement-Image / 20 Lecture Date: May 25, 1982
	Cinema: The Movement-Image / 21 Lecture Date: June 1, 1982

Cinema: The Classification of Signs and Time

November 1, 1982 to June 7, 1983

In the second year of Deleuze’s consideration of cinema and philosophy, he commences the year by explaining that whereas he usually changes topics from one year to the next, he feels compelled to continue with the current topic and, in fact, to undertake a process of “philosophy in the manner of cows, rumination… I want entirely and truly to repeat myself, to start over by repeating myself.” Hence, the 82-83 Seminar consists in once again taking up Bergson’s theses on perception, but now with greater emphasis on the aspects of classification of images and signs drawn from C.S. Peirce. This allows Deleuze to continue the shift from considering the movement-image, that dominated early 20th century cinema, toward a greater understanding of the post-World War II emphasis on the time-image.

Lectures in this Seminar

	Cinema: The Classification of Signs and Time / 01 Lecture Date: November 2, 1982
	Cinema: The Classification of Signs and Time / 02 Lecture Date: November 23, 1982
	Cinema: The Classification of Signs and Time / 03 Lecture Date: November 30, 1982
	Cinema: The Classification of Signs and Time / 04 Lecture Date: December 7, 1982
	Cinema: The Classification of Signs and Time / 05 Lecture Date: December 14, 1982
	Cinema: The Classification of Signs and Time / 06 Lecture Date: December 21, 1982
	Cinema: The Classification of Signs and Time / 07 Lecture Date: January 11, 1983
	Cinema: The Classification of Signs and Time / 08 Lecture Date: January 18, 1983
	Cinema: The Classification of Signs and Time / 09 Lecture Date: January 25, 1983
	Cinema: The Classification of Signs and Time / 10 Lecture Date: February 1, 1983
	Cinema: The Classification of Signs and Time / 11 Lecture Date: February 22, 1983
	Cinema: The Classification of Signs and Time / 12 Lecture Date: March 1, 1983
	Cinema: The Classification of Signs and Time / 13 Lecture Date: March 8, 1983
	Cinema: The Classification of Signs and Time / 14 Lecture Date: March 15, 1983
	Cinema: The Classification of Signs and Time / 15 Lecture Date: March 22, 1983
	Cinema: The Classification of Signs and Time / 16 Lecture Date: April 12, 1983
	Cinema: The Classification of Signs and Time / 17 Lecture Date: April 19, 1983
	Cinema: The Classification of Signs and Time / 18 Lecture Date: April 26, 1983
	Cinema: The Classification of Signs and Time / 19 Lecture Date: May 3, 1983
	Cinema: The Classification of Signs and Time / 20 Lecture Date: May 17, 1983
	Cinema: The Classification of Signs and Time / 21 Lecture Date: May 24, 1983
	Cinema: The Classification of Signs and Time / 22 Lecture Date: May 31, 1983
	Cinema: The Classification of Signs and Time / 23 Lecture Date: June 7, 1983

Cinema: The Classification of Signs and Time

Leibniz: Philosophy and the Creation of Concepts

April 15, 1980 to May 20, 1980

5 seminars (11 hours): During academic year 1979-80, Deleuze undertakes a thirteen-session study of Apparatuses of State and War Machines (6 Nov 1979 – 25 March 1980). Then, at the start of the 26 February 1980 seminar, Deleuze explains, “some of you asked me to do something that would be a kind of presentation on a very great philosopher, one that is very difficult, named Leibniz. … So, it could be very useful again to take up certain notions that we have worked on over several years. So anything is possible; it’s up to you, but as of now, or in a coming meeting, I will do something on Leibniz… a special request.”

As we know, Deleuze will return to Leibniz again in his final seminar, in 1986-87, as a means to examine the specific concept of the fold. It is also helpful to recall what texts Deleuze was developing at the time of the 1980 lectures: besides reworking the 1970 Spinoza. Textes choisis (Paris: PUF, 1970) as Spinoza. Philosophie pratique (Paris: Minuit, 1981), Deleuze most certainly had begun work on Francis Bacon. The Logic of Sensation, also published the following year (La Roche-sur-Yon: Éditions de la différence, 1981). Several notions important to Deleuze in this short work ostensibly on painting will emerge forcefully (notably, “the cry”) as he lays the groundwork for concepts from Leibniz to which he will return later in the decade.

Please note that the transcriptions and translations below are entirely new versions, differing significantly from those that have hitherto been available at the WebDeleuze site. They now correspond as faithfully as possible, without omissions, to the recordings available from the BNF and YouTube (linked here on each transcript page).

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Lectures in this Seminar

	Leibniz: Philosophy and the Creation of Concepts / 01 Lecture Date: April 15, 1980
	Leibniz: Philosophy and the Creation of Concepts / 02 Lecture Date: April 22, 1980
	Leibniz: Philosophy and the Creation of Concepts / 03 Lecture Date: April 29, 1980
	Leibniz: Philosophy and the Creation of Concepts / 04 Lecture Date: May 6, 1980
	Leibniz: Philosophy and the Creation of Concepts / 05 Lecture Date: May 20, 1980

Leibniz: Philosophy and the Creation of Concepts

Kant: Synthesis and Time

March 1, 1978 to April 4, 1978

In 1963, Deleuze published a tightly articulated book on Kant, La philosophie critique de Kant (translated as Kant’s Critical Philosophy) that lays out (in the introduction) the “transcendental method”, then in three successive chapters, outlines the relations of the faculties as presented, respectively, in the Critique of Pure Reason, the Critique of Practical Reason, and the Critique of Judgement, with a brief conclusion on “les fins de la raison”, the “ends of reason”.

Years later, in L’Abécédaire (“K as in Kant”), Deleuze describes his motivation for working on a philosopher with whom he had little in common: first, for Deleuze, Kant’s writing constituted such a turning point in numerous ways and, second, he initiated something in philosophy that had never been advanced previously, a tribunal of reason and things being judged as a function of this tribunal. While pretending to be struck with horror by Kant’s critical method, Deleuze admits that this is mixed with fascination, especially Kant’s astonishing reversal of time’s subordination to movement, with movement henceforth depending on time, and thus, time ceasing to be circular and becoming a straight line. Moreover, late in his life, Kant introduces his conception of the sublime, by which the faculties enter into conflicts, having discordant accords, then reconciling, but no longer being subject to a tribunal. Deleuze argues that Kant’s greatness is due to creating a whole undergirding in his works that makes Deleuze quite enthusiastic, while on top of the undergirding is a system of judgment that Deleuze says he would like to do away with, but without standing in judgment.

We should also note that during the 1977-78 academic year, one possible topic for an oral explication of a German language text in the national agrégation de philosophie examination was a text by Kant (from the Critique of Judgment, Introduction, “Analytik des Schöne”), so Deleuze’s choice for this brief seminar may have linked his students’ needs with his own interests.

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	Kant: Synthesis and Time / 01 Lecture Date: March 14, 1978
	Kant: Synthesis and Time / 02 Lecture Date: March 21, 1978
	Kant: Synthesis and Time / 03 Lecture Date: March 28, 1978
	Kant: Synthesis and Time / 04 Lecture Date: April 4, 1978