(np) Foucault's Acid Trip in Death Valley

Kai Frederik Lorentzen lorentzen at hotmail.de
Wed Sep 13 04:54:29 CDT 2017


Stuart Elden:

> ... The interview with Wade is fascinating, though some of its claims need to be taken with caution. The visit took place in June 1975, four months after Surveiller et punir appeared in French, and eighteen months before History of Sexuality volume I was published. That the trip had a profound effect on Foucault may well be true, but that it led him to criticise Bentham for the first time is impossible. And if it had such an impact on his thinking for the History of Sexuality, then why did he continue to work on the book for over a year, along with outlining the initial plan which, according to Wade, the trip made him discard? ... <

https://progressivegeographies.com/2017/09/13/michel-foucaults-acid-trip-in-death-valley-interview-with-simeon-wade-with-great-archival-photos/

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