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Article: Tricky situations: May 1968. (the situationism engaged in by Parisian student radicals 30 years ago)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 2, 1998
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TOULOUSE
MAOISM and Trotskyism were trendy in the Quartier Latin; and hedonistic anarchism prevailed at the newly-built University of Nanterre where Daniel Cohn-Bendit and his group of enrages threw tomatoes at fashionable left-wing professors and laid siege to the female students' residences.
Like Moliere's Monsieur Jourdain, who spoke prose without knowing it, Mr Cohn-Bendit and his pals were all situationists without quite realising it. According to Guy Debord, around whom the fragile movement circled, a situationist is "one who engages in the construction of situations". When students turned the boulevard Saint Michel into a lecture hall or invited ...