In the wake of new far-right populisms, the fragmentation of progressive global narratives and the dismantling of economic globalization, there are signs that neoliberalism is beginning to enter its death throes. Using 1968 as one of the inaugural moments of neoliberalism, this interdisciplinary collection is a critical and comparative resource that reexamines the significance and legacy of the global 1968 uprisings from todays vantage point.

For scholars and students alike, this interdisciplinary collection will help readers understand why the global uprisings of 1968 continue to resonate and what it means for theory and culture today.

Guillaume Collett is an honorary research fellow in the Centre for Critical Thought at the University of Kent and currently based in the University of Malta. He is the author ofThe Psychoanalysis of Sense: Deleuze and the Lacanian School (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), and the editor ofDeleuze, Guattari, and the Problem of Transdisciplinarity (Bloomsbury, 2019). He has edited two special issues and previously co-edited the journalLa Deleuziana.

Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone is a visiting senior lecturer in English at the University of Malta, a research fellow at the University of Kent, and a research assistant in refugee law with the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Giappone has published in the areas of digital games, critical theory, and the history of subcultures and is coeditor ofComedy and Critical Thought(Rowman and Littlefield International 2018).

Iain MacKenzie teaches political theory at the University of Kent. His research focuses on the nature and scope of critique, and he is coeditor ofComedy and Critical Thought: Laughter as Resistance (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2018).

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Acknowledgements

1Introduction: Revolution Today

Guillaume Collett

PART I: 1968 AND MARXISM

2Communism as the Riddle Posed to History

Jose Rosales

3Workers and Capitalists: Two Different Worlds? Immanence

and Antagonism in MarxsCapital

Daniel Fraser

4The Unfulfilled Promises of the Italian 1968 Protest Movement

Franco Manni

PART II: FREEDOM AND RIGHTS

5On Ludic Servitude

Natasha Lushetich

6Contrasting Legacies of 68: Deleuze and Human Rights

Christos Marneros

768 and Sexuality: Disentangling the Double Bind

Blanche Plaquevent

PART III: COLLECTIVE PRACTICES AND INSTITUTIONS

8Two Kinds of Critical Pragmatism 161

Iain MacKenzie

9May 68: An Institutional Event

Gabriela Hernández De La Fuente

10Communist Guilt, Public Happiness and the Feelings of Collective Attachment

aylon cohen

11Community, Theatre and Political Labour: Unworking the

Socialist Legacy of 1968

Ben Dunn

Index

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