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Michèle Bernstein, the Situationists and May 68

Posted on May 10, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

The situationists have designated as the primary terrains of creativity in the future experiments in behavior and the construction of complete settings, moments of life freely created. Since the definition of experimentation of this type is only the other side … Continue reading →

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Jean-Luc Nancy: May 68

Posted on August 29, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

We close our overly brief and modest sharing of the work of Jean-Luc Nancy with an interview (in translation) that he gave to Carole Dely, for the journal Sens publique on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of france’s May … Continue reading →

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Witness to a revolution: May 68

Posted on November 22, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability… All photographs testify to time’s relentless melt. Susan Sontag, On Photography For Bruno Barbey (1941-2020) The illusion of photography lies in its apparent immediacy, in its … Continue reading →

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May 68 and the politics of desire: Amador Fernández-Savater

Posted on May 31, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

(photograph by Jean-Claude Seine)* It is difficult, if not impossible, to close political debate, even for ourselves.  And therefore our announcement of the end of our series on May 68, with an essay by Tomáz Ibáñez, was premature.  Below, we share … Continue reading →

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Thinking through May 68 (to the May of 15M): Tomás Ibáñez

Posted on May 26, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

Our series of posts, on this, the 50th anniversary of the french May 68, began with a recent essay on the events, by Tomáz Ibáñez.  And we close with an older reflection (a prologue to a larger essay on May … Continue reading →

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Thinking through May 68: Murray Bookchin

Posted on May 26, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

From Robert Graham’s Anarchist Weblog … Lately I have been focusing on recent events in France – the conclusion to the Tarnac trial and the police attack on the ZAD autonomous zone near Nantes. Now it is time to commemorate the 50th anniversary of … Continue reading →

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Anarchists and anarchy in May 68

Posted on May 26, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

Reflections on anarchism in france’s May 68, by David Porter and posted at the Anarchist Library.

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For May 68 as a permanent possibility, for a May 2018

Posted on April 29, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

Numerous calls have been made in france not to celebrate May 68, but to have it burn again in 2018.  These calls have in turn been circulated beyond france. From lespaves.net, an invitation for a beautiful May in Paris …

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The winds of May 68 in France: the Larzac

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

An often forgotten or ignored dimension of May 68 were france’s peasant movements, which preceded 1968 and would continue after the student movement and general strike came to an end. The Larzac protest and land occupation against government plans to … Continue reading →

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The winds of May 68 in France: The LIP factory takeover

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

France’s May of 1968 brought on the largest industrial strike in the history of modern capitalism.  What began as a student movement quickly overflowed the walls of the universities to spread throughout french society, with hundreds of factories not only … Continue reading →

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