Epistemophagy

a lecture on the perspective of Deleuze’s Course Lectures on Foucault

Abstract

Gilles Deleuze published your Foucault in 1986. It does not seem like a tribute book. Granted, it is evidence of influence or the flow record against the flow with the Michel Foucault philosophy in producing Deleuzian concepts. Although the mentioned work has been circulating in Brazil since 1988, in recent years, the publication of Michel Foucault: as formações históricas, a translation of seminars taught by Deleuze that constitute the second part of Foucault, has gained prominence. But, what does this new publication bring to the expectation? Is it a sample of what every author may encounter one day: say what is said and do a reading again under other conditions (or even formations)? It focused our efforts on, as we see, some procedures that potentially contribute to the understanding of (re)saying in its various modulations. In summary, this procedural set fed a comparative reading between the different materials analyzed so that it is possible to apprehend the movements operated by Deleuze and how they require sensitivity on the part of the reader, which, here, we call acts: of scribbling and writing, and procedures: decoupage and “DIY.”