The Long 1968

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Meaning and uses of 1968 today

From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, revolutions in theory, politics, and cultural experimentation swept around the world. These changes had as great a transformative impact on the right as on the left. A touchstone for activists, artists, and theorists of all stripes, the year 1968 has taken on new significance for the present moment, which bears certain uncanny resemblances to that time. The Long 1968 explores the wide-ranging impact of the year and its aftermath in politics, theory, the arts, and international relations—and its uses today.

Acknowledgments
Introduction Jasmine Alinder, A. Aneesh, Daniel J. Sherman, and Ruud van Dijk
Part 1. 1968, the Text
1. Foucault's 1968 Bernard Gendron
2. Palimpsests of '68: Theorizing Labor after Adorno Richard Langston
3. What's Left of the Right to the City? Judit Bodnar
Part 2. Locating Politics
4. The Rise and Fall of an International Counterculture, 1960–1975 Jeremi Suri
5. Invisible Humanism: An African 1968 and Its Aftermaths James Ferguson
6. Pushing Luck Too Far: '68, Northern Ireland, and Nonviolence Simon Prince
7. Mexico 1968 and the Art(s) of Memory Jacqueline E. Bixler
Part 3. Bodies, Protest, and Art
8. White Power, Black Power, and the 1968 Olympic Protests Martin A. Berger
9. Bodies Count: The Sixties Body in American Politics Robert O. Self
10. Beginning 9 Evenings Michelle Kuo
11. Sensorial Techniques of the Self: From the Jouissance of May '68 to the Economy of the Delay Noit Banai
Part 4. 1968, the Movie
12. Tempered Nostalgia in Recent French Films on the '68 Years Julian Bourg
13. Rhetorics of Resistance: The Port Huron Project Mark Tribe
Contributors
Index

Sujets

• Arts visuels
• Histoire des Arts
• Histoire des Arts
• Histoire des arts visuels
• 1968
• ART
• Obermodern-Zutzendorf
• United States
• General
• History of the Americas
• Politics
• 20th century
• History of the United States
• General officer
• Cold War
• Modern history
• HISTORY
• Modern

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• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 16 juillet 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780253009180
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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THE LONG
1968
The Long 1968 IS VOLUME 7 IN THE SERIES
21ST CENTURY STUDIES Center for 21st Century Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee RICHARD GRUSIN, GENERAL EDITOR
THE LONG 1968
Revisions and New Perspectives
EDITED BY
Daniel J. Sherman, Ruud van Dijk, Jasmine Alinder, and A. Aneesh
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The long 1968 : revisions and new perspectives / edited by Daniel J. Sherman, Ruud van Dijk, Jasmine Alinder, and A. Aneesh.
pages cm. - (21st century studies; v. 8)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-253-00903-6 (cloth : alk. paper) - ISBN 978-0-253-00910-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) - ISBN 978-0-253-00918-0 (electronic book) 1. Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D. 2. History, Modern-1945-1989. I. Sherman, Daniel J., editor of compilation.
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction
Jasmine Alinder, A. Aneesh, Daniel J. Sherman, and Ruud van Dijk
PART 1 1968, THE TEXT
1 Foucault s 1968 | Bernard Gendron
2 Palimpsests of 68: Theorizing Labor after Adorno | Richard Langston
3 What s Left of the Right to the City? | Judit Bodnar
PART 2 LOCATING POLITICS
4 The Rise and Fall of an International Counterculture, 1960-1975 | Jeremi Suri
5 Invisible Humanism: An African 1968 and Its Aftermaths | James Ferguson
6 Pushing Luck Too Far: 68, Northern Ireland, and Nonviolence | Simon Prince
7 Mexico 1968 and the Art(s) of Memory | Jacqueline E. Bixler
PART 3 BODIES, PROTEST, AND ART
8 White Power, Black Power, and the 1968 Olympic Protests | Martin A. Berger
9 Bodies Count: The Sixties Body in American Politics | Robert O. Self
10 Beginning 9 Evenings | Michelle Kuo
11 Sensorial Techniques of the Self: From the Jouissance of May 68 to the Economy of the Delay | Noit Banai
PART 4 1968, THE MOVIE
12 Tempered Nostalgia in Recent French Films on the 68 Years | Julian Bourg
13 Rhetorics of Resistance: The Port Huron Project | Mark Tribe
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book grows out of a conference, Since 1968, organized by the Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, from October 23 to 25, 2008, to mark the fortieth anniversary of the founding of what was then called the Center for 20th Century Studies. We would like to thank Kumkum Sangari, who, along with the four editors, helped to organize the conference; her global vision and broad interests helped inspire the broad range of topics in this volume. We deeply appreciate the support and assistance of all kinds of the Center s then interim director, Merry Wiesner-Hanks; former deputy director Kate Kramer for her able service as conference coordinator; the Center s former business manager, Maria Liesegang; and its graduate student project assistants. It is also a pleasure to acknowledge the role played by a number of conference participants whose contributions could not be included in this volume but who played a vital role in the dialogue this book continues and seeks to perpetuate: Carolee Schneemann, who led off the conference with a memorable keynote, and speakers Rose Brewer, Yoshikino Igarashi, Tamara Levitz, Ann Reynolds, Carol Siegel, Dina Manaz Siddiqi, Fred Turner, and Kath Weston.
Thanks are also due to Rebecca Tolen, who is responsible for the Center book series at Indiana University Press, for her support for the project; to the Press s external reviewers, for their helpful comments; and to the Center s current director, Richard Grusin. We are grateful above all to John Blum, the Center s associate director for publications, for his patience, doggedness (notably in securing illustrations and permissions), and expertise. John has made our lives easier and this book better. Finally, we would like to thank our life partners, Aims McGuinness, Erica Bornstein, Eduardo Douglas, and Joan Dobkin, for being a part of this project from the beginning.
THE LONG
1968
Introduction
JASMINE ALINDER, A. ANEESH, DANIEL J. SHERMAN, AND RUUD VAN DIJK
In his gripping documentary Le fond de l air est rouge ( A Grin without a Cat ), the French filmmaker Chris Marker posits that the upheaval subsequently associated with 1968 actually began as a student demonstration against a visit by the shah of Iran to West Berlin and an attack on the students by the shah s secret police in June 1967. Released in several versions over more than a decade, from 1979 to 1992, Marker s film reflects the continuously changing contours of the long 1968; with footage from the jungles of Venezuela to the streets of Tokyo, from Czechoslovakia to China to Chile, from Vietnam to the Pentagon, it also provides a visual touchstone for the global reach of 1968. In its final cut, Le fond de l air extends as far as 1977, with Marker s voice-over, a unique fusion of elegance, rue, and disillusionment, taking the viewer even closer to his present.
Although the decade or so covered by Le fond de l air est rouge represents a reasonable chronological framework for the long 1968 of our title, this book is concerned less with chronology than with connections, diachronic as well as synchronic. The book has several objectives. First, it seeks to explore both the commonalities and the variations of the long 1968 around the world: a pervasive search for new forms of social organization and political action, as well as new ways of thinking about them; an impatience, sometimes to the point of violence, with existing authority; an eagerness to find in other parts of the world, the more remote and exotic the better, the means of combating that authority and creating an alternative to it; disillusionment, but in some places the continued hope as alternatives were increasingly foreclosed. Second, by examining events, groups, and ideas through new lenses-whether the broader focus of Jeremi Suri; the inclusion of sites rarely considered in histories of 1968, such as Simon Prince s Northern Ireland and James Ferguson s Zambia; and Bernard Gendron s rereading of a familiar figure like Michel Foucault-the book seeks to question what was in danger of becoming, by the time of the fortieth anniversary of 1968, a kind of canonical treatment quite alien to the spirit of that age, focused on familiar figures in the Paris-Berkeley axis. Finally, by looking at the continued resonance of 1968 in the first decade of the twenty-first century, we add another layer to the idea of the long 1968, one that includes those who continue to invoke, study, and interpret it in our own day, as well as parallels in our own time, whether intentional or not.
Readers will find many resonances among and across the different essays; we have organized them thematically in an effort to enhance those resonances. We begin with three essays that look at influential theorists who had different associations with the events of 1968: Michel Foucault, Theodor Adorno, and Henri Lefebvre. In no way do we suggest that theorists from the European continent were the only ones inspiring actors and events elsewhere: other bodies of theory are evoked and developed in later essays, notably that of James Ferguson. Indeed, Foucault himself questioned the Eurocentrism of 1968: It wasn t May of 68 in France that changed me; it was March of 68 in a third world country. In Tunis he was struck by the desire, the capacity and the possibility of an absolute sacrifice without our being able to recognize or suspect the slightest ambition or desire for power and profit, where the precision of theory, its scientific character, was an entirely secondary question. 1 Rather than attempting a comprehensive examination of the precision of theory, part 1 seeks to launch the book s larger project by examining the work of these three theorists within new contextual perspectives. Just as all three in different ways questioned the distinction between theory and practice, the essays in the second part of the book, which moves from text to the context of politics, are also concerned with the force of ideas, images, and concepts on the political events that led up to, constituted, and followed from the events of 1968. Part 3 continues this scrutiny with particular emphasis on both the symbolic and the physical action of particular bodies. The final section, 1968, the Movie, offers two new ways of thinking about the complex relationship between the long 1968 and its filmic representations.
Part 1 begins with Bernard Gendron s bracingly revisionist interpretation of Michel Foucault s 1968. In part because Foucault was teaching in Tunis in the spring of 1968 and missed what the French thought of as the events of May, in part because the many commentators on the philosopher have preferred internalist explanations of changes in his work, little attention has been paid to the effect of 1968 on Foucault s thought. But to cast the emergence of a genealogical method in the 1970s, first in Discipline and Punish (1975), as the result only of Foucault s dissatisfaction with his early arch