...Evan Calder Williams; Alberto Toscano This essay critically approaches the use of “1968” as a periodizing category by contrasting historiographic and political debates on the event and aftermath of the French May with the spatial and temporal unevenness that attaches to Italy’s “long” 1968. We...

...Michael E. Gardiner In The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968 , Katsiaficas suggests the first genuine revolution against “boredom”—a rejection of social conformity, stultifying work, and facile consumerism—occurred in Paris during May ’68. Yet, this event was only the most...

...Frédérique Matonti; Chris Turner The journal Cahiers pour l’Analyse was founded in 1966 and disappeared in the aftermath of May 1968. At the time the intellectual and publishing world was dominated by texts that were broadly characterized as “structuralist.” Edited by a board of students...

...Morgan Adamson In the midst of struggles against racial oppression in the United States that intensified in and around 1968, activists developed the theory of the internal colony to contend that US imperialism was essential to understanding racial oppression in the heart of empire. The theory...

... ideology has absorbed and reframed the driving logics of 1968, this essay argues that montage’s radical political potential has been exhausted by the conditions of contemporary finance capitalism and instead calls for alternative modes of aesthetic engagement better equipped to at once express and oppose...

...Eli Meyerhoff One of the most revolutionary movements in the history of US universities—the Third World students’ strike that shut down San Francisco (SF) State College for five months in 1968–69—had a key precursor in the Experimental College (EC), which supported student-organized courses...

...; the demonstrations at the August 1968 Democrats’ Convention; and the demonstrations at the August 1972 Republicans’ Convention. © BERG 2008 PRINTED IN THE UK 2008 Allen Ginsberg Vietnam avant-garde counterculture media possibility Watergate In May 1963 the poet Allen Ginsberg began an extensive...

... of 1968, but we have little understanding of their often subterranean influence on the shape of cultural politics since the 1970s. This essay examines the historical case, and then tries to chart the path of Mao’s influence on educational reform, cultural and community activism, and legislative change...

...Ian Waites George Shaw (1966–) is a British painter known for his meticulous depictions of Tile Hill in Coventry, a post–World War II council housing estate where Shaw lived from 1968 until the late 1980s. This article assesses Shaw's work as a product of a wider struggle between the idealistic...

... of any centennial, and you’ll find a plethora of essays, conferences, journal articles, and roundtables dedicated to reflections on the significance of that historic moment. The year 1968 is no exception, and the fiftieth anniversary of this momentous date did not pass by without numerous commemorations...

... was that “the self is never encouraged to think of itself as theatrical or significant” ( Simpson 1968 ). Todd Gitlin, SDS member, president (1963–64), and eventual chronicler, expressed similar sentiments. As he later noted, what first drew him to the organization was the realization that its members “lived...

... students also took place in Dakar in 1968, with students going on strike to protest “rising food prices, falling living standards, graduate unemployment and foreign control of domestic industry” ( Zeilig and Ansell 2008 : 40). On May 30, 1968, after President Léopold Senghor sent troops to pacify campus...

... . Hoppe Hans-Hermann . 2017 . “ Libertarianism and the Alt-Right: In Search of a Libertarian Strategy for Social Change .” The Ludwig von Mises Centre (UK) , October 20 . C. J. 2017 . “ To Understand Germany Today, Compare It with 1968 .” Economist , September 29...

... . The Illusion of the End . Oxford : Polity . Baudrillard J. 1996 [1968] . The System of Objects . London : Verso . Baudrillard J. 1997 . “ Objects, Images, and the Possibilities of Aesthetic Illusion .” In Zurbrugg N. (ed.), Jean Baudrillard, Art and Artefact , pp. 7 – 18...

.... Again, a revolution of awareness is prerequisite to ending consumerism and, by implication, capitalism as we know it. The problem is how this is achieved. Engaged in student protest, speaking at the Sorbonne in Paris in May 1968, Marcuse looked not to a revolution driven by the working class (although...

... individually. The art museum is, conventionally, a white- walled (or value-free) space where the contestations of the street are absent. Freee reintroduce a sense of contest to the gallery, in a way that reminds me (an art student in London from 1968 to 1971) of flower power, and an optimism that protest might...

... . Lorey Isobell . 2015 . State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious . London : Verso . Marcuse Herbert . (1937a) 1968 . “ The Affirmative Character of Culture .” In Negations: Essays in Critical Theory , 88 – 133 . Harmondsworth, UK : Penguin . Marcuse Herbert...

... . St. Louis : Telos . Baudrillard Jean . 1996 [1968] . The System of Objects . Translated by Benedict James . London : Verso . Baudrillard Jean . 1998 [1970] . The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures . Translated by Turner Chris . Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage...