Archive of 1968

In the third and final installment of this interview series, Jacques Rancière reflects on May 1968 and neoliberalism in order to contextualise his work criticising the Althusserian distinction between science and ideology, as well as to shed light on how his own philosophy developed in relation to those of Althusser, Bourdieu, and Foucault.

Christian Baudelot founded a research group on "the school" with other students of Louis Althusser in the wake of 1968's events. In this interview, he details the group's ambitions and its trajectory. 

The 1968 revolts in France live in popular memory as the country's most significant political moment in the twentieth century. In this extensive interview, Grey Anderson urges us to turn our attention instead a decade earlier to 1958 and the fall of the Fourth Republic. Anderson argues that the Fourth Republic's demise was a coup that allowed de Gaulle to seize power and crush his oppostion.

Mitchell Dean and Daniel Zamora outline Michel Foucault's growing interest in neoliberalism as a "left governmentality" that could act as an alternative to Marxism.

Louis Althusser critiques Michel Verret's response to the May 1968 uprisings, and in so doing indirectly critiques the French Communist Party's handling of the situation. Available for the first time in English.

"Our reading in 1968 and thereabouts, done in the context of mass movements of social protest, helped to transform us into revolutionaries."

How did a young American woman, born to a secular, working-class New York Jewish family and raised during the Depression, end up in Algiers during a heady period of revolutionary fervor?

As elsewhere, 1968 in Argentina was marked by increasingly militant struggles waged by workers and students, but the “Argentine 68” had its own tempo and would not explode until May 1969.