THE LAST MAN TAKES LSD

How Michel Foucault, drugs, California and the rise of neoliberal politics in 1970s France are all connectedIn May 1975, Michel Fouc ault took LSD in the desert in southern California. He described it as the most important event of his life which would lead him to completely rework his History of Sexuality. His focus now would not be on power relations but on the experiments of subjectivity, an d the care of the self. Through this lens he would reinterpret the social movements of May 68 and position himself politically in Fr ance in r...[Read more]