FOUCAULT IN CALIFORNIA

In The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking nostalgicallyof 'an unforgettable ev ening on LSD, in carefully prepared doses, in the desert night, with delicious music, [and] nice people'. This came to pass in 1975 , when Foucault spent Memorial Day weekend in Southern California at the invitation of Simeon Wade-ostensibly to guest-lecture at th e Claremont Graduate School where Wade was an assistant professor, but in truth to explore what he called the Valley of Death. Led b y Wade and ...[Read more]