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Some ideas about May 1968 from Abidor, M. (2018) ‘May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France’ London, Pluto Press. This is a rich resource in that it brings together accounts from Paris veterans (already established political workers, new students, anarchists and voices from outside Paris. It also mixes accounts from … More Some ideas about May 1968 from Abidor, M. (2018)

Reading Guy Debord (1967) The Society of the Spectacle (trans Knabb, K.). 2nd ed. (2012) Eastbourne, Soul Bay Press Ltd., Sussex. Debord addresses these issues, although never ‘head-on’. He details signs of negation of the SotS (94) thus: (thesis 115, p.94): New signs of negation are proliferating in the most economically advanced countries. Although these … More Thinking about ‘art’ in May 1968 and the issue of an inclusive art-history (1):