The Walls Have the Floor: Mural Journal, May `68 9780262038027

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Автор: Besancon Julien
Название: The Walls Have the Floor: Mural Journal, May `68
ISBN: 9780262038027
Издательство: MIT Press
Классификация:

Революции, восстания и мятежи

Политология и политическая философия

Революционные группы и движения

ISBN-10: 0262038021
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 224
Вес: 0.18 кг.
Дата издания: 23.03.2018
Серия: The mit press
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 1 b 2 illustrations, unspecified
Размер: 178 x 113 x 19
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Mural journal, may `68
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The graffiti of the French student and worker uprising of May 1968, capturing participatory politics in action.

Graffiti itself became a form of freedom. -- Julien Besancon, The Walls Have the Floor

Fifty years ago, in 1968, barricades were erected in the streets of Paris for the first time since the Paris Commune of nearly one hundred years before. The events of May 1968 began with student protests against the Vietnam War and American imperialism, expanded to rebellion over student living conditions and resistance to capitalist consumerism. An uprising at the Sorbonne was followed by wildcat strikes across France, uniting students and workers and bringing the countrys economy to a halt. There have been many accounts of these events. This book tells the story in a different way, through the graffiti inscribed by protestors as they protested.

The graffiti collected here is by turns poetic, punning, hopeful, sarcastic, and crude. It quotes poets as often as it does political thinkers. Many wrote I have nothing to write, signaling not their naivete but their desire to participate. Other anonymous declarations included Prohibiting prohibited; The dream is reality; The walls have ears. Your ears have walls; Exaggeration is the beginning of invention; Comrades, youre nitpicking; You dont beg for the right to live, you take it; and I came/I saw/I believed. A meeting is called at the Grand Amphitheater of the Sorbonne: Agenda: the worldwide revolution. This was interactive, participatory politics before Twitter and Facebook.

Although the revolution of May 1968 didnt topple the government (Charles de Gaulle fled the country, only to return; in June, his party won a resounding electoral mandate), it made history. In The Walls Have the Floor, Julien Besancon collected traces of this history before the walls were painted over, and published this collection in July 1968 even as the paint was drying. Read today, the graffiti of 1968 captures, in a way no conventional history can, the defining spontaneity of the events.

The Walls Have the Floor: Mural Journal, May `68, Besancon Julien