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...Rey Chow Duke University Press 2007 A Filmic Staging of Postwar Geotemporal Politics: On Akira Kurosawa’s No Regrets for Our Youth, Sixty Years Later Rey Chow In the summer of 2005, I was invited to deliver...

...Silvia D. Spitta This essay frames an extended 2008 interview with Peter Schumann, founder and director of the Bread and Puppet Theater collective, through a discussion of how the sixties spread like wildfire across the world. The author rescues the sixties' understanding that liberation could only...

...Christopher Connery The essay considers the sixties as a global irruption of political and cultural revolution, of world-making of various kinds: decolonization, new subjectivities, new forms of daily life and politics, and new scenes of the political. It holds the sixties to be a global phenomenon...

...Hortense J. Spillers This essay looks at aspects of new southern culture against the backdrop of the 2007 Supreme Court ruling on school desegregation and its impact on our understanding of the sixties. Incorporating two book reviews, the essay argues that the “long” perspective on the period...

... for projected needs. It is often not appreciated that the ONR prioritizes development of innovative fundamental research, which is often interdisciplinary. Nearly sixty Nobel Laureates have contributed to these endeavors, including thirty-seven laureates since 1980. ONR-supported fundamental research has been...

...Colin Dayan In the dark drama and shock tactics of the Trump White House, I found myself obsessed with Dorothy Dandridge, a woman I had been quite unaware of until now. In following her traces, I recall the South in the sixties, race discrimination and raw hate, as well as recognize her particular...

... front” in terms of “deviations” from a militant line. These various elements will converge in Badiou's portrait of the subjectivity proper to the moment that followed les années rouges of the sixties and seventies—the period which he calls the Restoration, and whose latest incarnation he has identified...

...Ben Lerner This essay attempts to take the measure of Robert Creeley's some sixty-year commitment to poetry as a medium for tracking the processes of thinking and speaking, not for the production of finished thoughts. By reading Creeley against Wallace Stevens, I hope to both identify...

... American Left. Martí was one of the first thinkers of revolutionary anticolonial struggle, and in that sense it is legitimate to see him as the main ideological inspiration of the Cuban Revolution itself some sixty years after his death. Yet Martí's own relation to Marx—his near contemporary...

...Boris Kagarlitsky Boris Kagarlitsky examines the rise of political dissent in the East and West during the 1960s. The shestidesiatniki (sixties' generation) in the Soviet Union, he argues, have much more in common with the New Left than was realized at the time, or has been acknowledged since...

... to the hegemony of neoliberalism. That literary thinking in the contemporary American novel breaks with conventional progressive thinking in several ways is undeniable. But that it does so in a manner consistent with the “magical thinking” of the sixties and inconsistent with the broader progressive project...

... and support. Special thanks go to John Beverley, sixties man, not only for his work as author, editor, translator, and facilitator for this issue, but for an exemplary and inspiring career of committed, critical, and self-critical scholarship. Introduction: The Still Vacillating Equilibrium of the World...

... it be equivalent and commensurate with sport, or perhaps with acrobatics, rather than with mysticism, metaphysics, religion” (Winner 2015 : 51). Love's Body is a work of spiritual hygiene, an acrobatic promenade. It was also a brandished ember setting flammable tinder at the midpoint of the sixties...

..., all translations are my own. Rethinking the Armed Struggle in Latin America John Beverley The most cynical verdict on the sixties I am aware of is a remark attributed to Régis Debray: “We thought we were heading to China, but we...

... narrative of the sixties. They have argued that the latter years of the decade traced a political de- cline characterized by a failure of moral purpose: While the first half of the decade was focused on serious social issues, most centrally the Civil Rights movement, the second half of the decade saw...

... included his essay “The World Sixties,” was published in 2008. His first book, The Empire of the Text: Writing and Authority in Early Imperial China, appeared in 1998. In addition to work on the global sixties and imperial China, he has published a number of articles on the ideologies of oceanic...

...- ments with us. “They are right,” he says, . . . to discern in the ferment of the sixties a widespread “antipathy” to liberal government and the available forms of organized opposition: unions, the old parties of the Left, and the various tightly disciplined revolutionary...

... the object of hiring) results from affirmative action regulations instituted at the beginning of the 1970s. This reversal, usually identified with ‘‘sixties radicalism has deeper roots. The sixties co- incided with a surge...

... A Hooper y su esposa and essays on Severo Sarduy and Virgilio Piñera. Miguel Barnet is a well-known Cuban poet and literary figure of the generation of the sixties. He is perhaps best known as the author/compiler...