Deleuze's Foucault: A Virtual Force Ontology / Christopher Penfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Penfield, Christopher, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press, [2026]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

How does Deleuzes study of Foucault challenge and deepen our understanding of both philosophers thought? Provides the first book-length study of Deleuzes FoucaultEstablishes a novel, previously untreated conceptual framework that Foucault and Deleuze shared, serving as the basis for the philosophical reconstruction of Foucaults thoughtIncludes new insight and analysis from Deleuzes recently translated and published seminars on FoucaultTreats of recently published primary source material (e. g. , Foucaults Confessions of the Flesh) as independent critical support Christopher Penfield illuminates the philosophical encounter between Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, developing the first systematic treatment of Deleuzes book Foucault, originally published in 1986. Using the full spectrum of Foucaults primary texts, as well as new insights and analysis from Deleuzes recently translated and published seminars on Foucault, Penfield identifies and elaborates the two thinkers shared philosophy of force as the novel conceptual framework of virtual force ontology. For the field of Foucault studies, where Foucault still meets with misunderstanding, Penfield clarifies and motivates the demanding, highly abstract portrait of Foucault that Deleuze offers; and in demonstrating Deleuzes philosophical reconstruction, unlocks unrealized aspects of Foucaults thought. For students as well as scholars of Deleuze, Penfield establishes the unique place and importance of Foucault in Deleuzes oeuvre, illuminating the fundamental impact of Foucault on Deleuze and the common cause (Deleuze) that shaped the course of their mutually transformative philosophical relationship.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Foucaults Double (Foucault)

0. 1 Deleuze on Foucault

0. 2 Deleuzes conceptual evolution: the audiovisual and the outside

0. 3 Note to the reader

1 A New Archivist (The Archaeology of Knowledge)

1. 1 A new pragmatics (E 110/F 1119)

1. 2 Discursive production and the repeatable materiality of statements (E 1012/F 201)

2 A New Cartographer (Discipline and Punish)

2. 1 Painterly writing and revolutionary affect (E 23-4/F 31-2)

2. 2 Practice and theory: the prison movement and transversal resistance (E 24/F 32)

2. 3 Power: macrophysical postulates and microphysical counter-principles (E 2430/F 328)

2. 4 The disciplinary diagram (E 314/F 3842)

2. 5 Diagrammatic social ontology (E 349/F 427)

2. 6 The mechanosphere of power (E 3944/F 4751)

3 Strata or Historical Formations: The Visible and the Articulable (Knowledge)

3. 1 Overview of the knowledge axis (E 4750/F 557)

3. 2 The problem of truth (E 609/F 6775)

3. 3 The visible and the articulable as historical conditions of real experience (E 502/F 579)

3. 4 Archaeology and the audiovisual archive (E 5060/F 5767)

3. 5 Audiovisual capture and the two regimes of truth

4 Strategies or The Non-Stratified: The Thought of the Outside (Power)

4. 1 Overview: microphysics as force ontology (E 704/F 7781)

4. 2 Power-knowledge: relations of capture between forces and forms (E 7481/F 818)

4. 3 The primacy of force over form: diagram and archive, revisited (E 816/F 8892)

4. 4 Resistance and the thought of the outside (E 8693/F 929)

5 Foldings, or the Inside of Thought (Subjectivation)

5. 1 The problem of resistance (E 946/F 1013)

5. 2 The subjectivation axis: how to sustain a line of the outside (E 96108/F 10315)

Conclusion: The Foucault Assemblage

6. 1 Virtual force ontology and the historical ontology of ourselves (E 11424/F 12131)

6. 2 Coda: chiastic social philosophies

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed February 17 2026)

ISBN:

1-3995-3011-9

9781399530118