During a 1975 visit to the United States Michel Foucault was persuaded to take a road trip to a remote desert region on the eastern border of California. When Foucault's party reached Zabriskie Point in Death Valley his host an assistant professor at Claremont Graduate School produced several tablets of LSD and proposed another trip – a psychedelic one. Foucault accepted this proposal and later called this night "the greatest experience of his life." This presentation discusses the sex drugs and rock-n-roll of Foucault's desert "trip " and examines the implications of his Death Valley epiphany.

…auf John Searles direkte Frage folgt Foucaults noch freimütigere Antwort. Man ist versucht die quellenkritischen Einwände mit einem "Se non è vero.." zu entkräften denn die auf youtube herumschwirrende Searle-Anekdote passt nur zu gut zu den klaren Worten eines weiteren wichtigen "Zeugen" aus Berkeley: "By the late 1970s Foucault was thoroughly fed up with France [..]" betont Paul Rabinow in einem kürzlich erschienenen Essay über die damaligen Lebensumstände seines Freundes.