"The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze once described university seminars as "a kind of Sprechgesang, closer to music than to theatre". In theory, he said, there is nothing to stop one from being like a rock concert. And Vincennes, "the lost university" as it has since been dubbed, is where it all started. The Centre Universitaire Expérimental de Vincennes was the short-lived educational experiment that Charles de Gaulle's embattled government hastily announced in the wake of the May 1968 protests and civil unrest."
"Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan were founding faculty, Jacques Derrida was a consultant and Noam Chomsky a visiting lecturer. Deleuze, meanwhile, smoked his way through a series of exploratory deep-dives, in a philosophy department that rejected the notion of building up knowledge progressively. He did not prepare notes, but he did rehearse his delivery. He was always adamant that no transcripts be published."
The Centre Universitaire Expérimental de Vincennes was created rapidly after the May 1968 protests as an experimental, democratically oriented institution. The site attracted leading figures such as Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Noam Chomsky and cultivated unconventional pedagogical forms. Gilles Deleuze delivered seminars that emphasized performative, musical modes of speech, avoided progressive knowledge-building and resisted transcript publication. Recordings, bootlegs and unsanctioned translations circulated widely online. In 2023 an official transcription, Sur la peinture, of Deleuze's 1981 seminar was published by David Lapoujade on behalf of the Deleuze family. The institution was demolished after only twelve years.
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