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The document summarizes the context and events of May 1968 in France. It describes the rigid and conservative society under President Charles de Gaulle, with restrictions on women's rights, homosexuality, and worker protections. Students and workers, making up 2/3 of the population, were seeking freedom, equality, and an end to capitalism and traditional morality. Massive protests and a general strike erupted in Paris in May 1968, bringing the government to the brink of collapse. The movement promoted anarchy, open debate, optimism, and freedom to live life as one chooses.

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Promise Anarchy UTOPIA Be realistic: Demand the impossible! French students and workers (2/3 of the population) Fears Censure and capitalism Freedom 1. Values 2. Target 3. Leverages 4. Seduces with 5. Reward Obedience to Liberal morality (equality, sexual liberation, human rights) Rejection of Traditional morality, focusing especially on the education system and employment conservative morality (religion, patriotism, respect for authority) "old society“ Standardized way of living life (tube, work, sleep) Emotional context A generation of youth with an extraordinary need to express themselves Social context A Rigid and conservative society: In May 1968, Charles de Gaulle was France's paternalistic president. Women couldn't wear pants to work and married ones needed a husband's permission to open a bank account. Homosexuality was a crime. Factory workers could be fired at will. The news on the single TV channel required government approval. And the overcrowded educational system was authoritarian. 4. Iconography Detournement: reuses elements of well-known media to create a new work with a different message, often one opposed to the original Graffiti Posters Flyers Book and pamphlets May 68 In Paris in May 1968, massive confrontations between police and students brought workers out on a general strike and brought the government to the point of collapse. Personal fears The horror of being like one’s parents Surrendering to the system Censure Living a life of boredom The great fear was that contemporary capitalism was capable of absorbing any and all critical ideas or movements and bending them to its own advantage Promise Anarchy Open Debate and Optimism Living life to the fullest Freedom to do and say whatever they want Freedom to sleep with one another Equal rights between men and women Visual and musical spell Detournement Emotion Social revolution Freedom To live the life they want To work the way they want To not have any restrictions imposed by authority figures
May 68 - iconography
May 68 - iconography
May 68 - Pictures
May 68 – Music inspired by the event The Beatles The Rolling Stones The Stones Roses Bye Bye Madman The Rolling Stones

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May 68

  • 1. Promise Anarchy UTOPIA Be realistic: Demand the impossible! French students and workers (2/3 of the population) Fears Censure and capitalism Freedom 1. Values 2. Target 3. Leverages 4. Seduces with 5. Reward Obedience to Liberal morality (equality, sexual liberation, human rights) Rejection of Traditional morality, focusing especially on the education system and employment conservative morality (religion, patriotism, respect for authority) "old society“ Standardized way of living life (tube, work, sleep) Emotional context A generation of youth with an extraordinary need to express themselves Social context A Rigid and conservative society: In May 1968, Charles de Gaulle was France's paternalistic president. Women couldn't wear pants to work and married ones needed a husband's permission to open a bank account. Homosexuality was a crime. Factory workers could be fired at will. The news on the single TV channel required government approval. And the overcrowded educational system was authoritarian. 4. Iconography Detournement: reuses elements of well-known media to create a new work with a different message, often one opposed to the original Graffiti Posters Flyers Book and pamphlets May 68 In Paris in May 1968, massive confrontations between police and students brought workers out on a general strike and brought the government to the point of collapse. Personal fears The horror of being like one’s parents Surrendering to the system Censure Living a life of boredom The great fear was that contemporary capitalism was capable of absorbing any and all critical ideas or movements and bending them to its own advantage Promise Anarchy Open Debate and Optimism Living life to the fullest Freedom to do and say whatever they want Freedom to sleep with one another Equal rights between men and women Visual and musical spell Detournement Emotion Social revolution Freedom To live the life they want To work the way they want To not have any restrictions imposed by authority figures
  • 2. May 68 - iconography
  • 3. May 68 - iconography
  • 4. May 68 - Pictures
  • 5. May 68 – Music inspired by the event The Beatles The Rolling Stones The Stones Roses Bye Bye Madman The Rolling Stones