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Promise Anarchy

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. . 4. Seduces with. 3. Leverages. Promise Anarchy. Fears Censure and capitalism. 1. Values. 5. Reward. 2. Target.

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Promise Anarchy

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  1. 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. 4. Seduces with 3. Leverages Promise Anarchy Fears Censure and capitalism 1. Values 5. Reward 2. Target UTOPIA Be realistic: Demand the impossible! Freedom French students and workers (2/3 of the population) Emotion Social revolution Visual and musical spell Detournement • 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. • 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 • 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) • Freedom • To live the life they want • To work the way they want • To not have any restrictions imposed by authority figures • 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 • 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

  2. May 68 - iconography

  3. May 68 - iconography

  4. May 68 - Pictures

  5. May 68 – Music inspired by the event The Rolling Stones The Stones Roses Bye Bye Madman The Beatles The Rolling Stones

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