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When I visited the Foucault Archives at the Bancroft Library 1 (University of California, Berkeley), I came across an interview with Foucault from 1978, conducted by Colin Gordon and Paul Patton, which disclosed part of Foucault's intellectual itinerary and which seemed to have remained unpublished. Colin and Paul later confirmed that this text had never been published and we then all agreed to contact the Centre Michel Foucault in order to make this document more accessible through publication.One of the key interests of this text lies in the originality of Foucault's comments regarding his work published at the time, which he situates on a philosophical path that goes from phenomenology to a critique of Marxism. Over the course of this interview, Foucault discusses the "subjectivistic" reception of phenomenology in France, clarifies his relationship with structuralism, brings some precision to his critique of the mechanisms of power, takes a stance against the "politicization of human relationships" (politisation des rapports humains) that seeks to unmask the enemy among all dissident individuals, revisits the specific connections he has with the notion of resistance, brings out some similarities between Kant and Nietzsche, and discusses the controversial reception of his first books. The interview succeeds in accurately seizing a defining moment of the so-called genealogical period that was about to take a new direction, a few months later, on the heels of the coverage of the Iranian revolution, and then of the ethical turn to the "genealogy of ourselves" (généalogie de nous-mêmes), to which the interview already refers.The transcription of the recorded interview is available at the Bancroft Library under the call number "BANC MSS 90/136z, 1:2." The original pagination is indicated in square brackets. A few words that remain inaudible are indicated. Finally, the spontaneous nature of 1

The shift in Foucault’s work from genealogy to ethics finds consensus among Foucault scholars. However, the motivations behind this transition remain either misunderstood or understudied in large part. Foucault’s recently published or soon-to-be translated 1977/—9 lectures (published as Security, Territory, Population and as The Birth of Biopolitics) offer new elements for understanding this dense and uncharted period along Foucault’s itinerary. In this article, the author argues that Foucault’s interpretation of the liberal tradition, which is at the core of the 1977—9 lectures, must be examined in combination with Foucault’s other major interests in the late 1970s, namely the Iranian Revolution and Kant. The discovery of spirituality (Iran), the valorization of an autonomous subject (Kant) and the call for a tolerant environment towards minority practices (liberalism) pave the way for the later Foucault’s ethics, which are grounded in spiritual exercises and means of liberating the subject.

There was a wide range of in memoriam and homages published in the years following Deleuze's suicide. However, none of them succeeded in grasping ‘the evential’ aspect of his death. This paper identifies a series of errors in the literature on Deleuze's death. It also suggests a way to overcome them by considering a singular encounter between Alice's passage through the looking glass and Deleuze's defenestration, which both took place on 4 November. We will show how a new conception of death as event comes out of this unseen connection.

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