Kristin Ross

la lutte comme manière d'habiter

La forme-Commune

"Kristin Ross's new work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the motivations and actions of contemporary protest, which has found its most powerful expression in the reclamation of public space. Today's concerns--internationalism, education, the future of labor, the status of art, and ecological theory and practice--frame and inform her carefully researched restaging of the words and actions of individual Communards. This original analysis of an event and its centrifugal effects brings to life the workers in Paris who became revolutionaries, the significance they attributed to their struggle, and the elaboration and continuation of their thought in the encounters that transpired between the insurrection's survivors and supporters like Marx, Kropotkin, and William Morris. The Paris Commune was a laboratory of political invention, important simply and above all for, as Marx reminds us, its own 'working existence.' Communal Luxury allows readers to revisit the intricate workings of an extraordinary experiment"--Publisher's description

the political imaginary of the Paris Commune

Communal luxury

During May 1968, students and workers in France united in the biggest strike and the largest mass movement in French history. Protesting capitalism, American imperialism, and Gaullism, 9 million people from all walks of life, from shipbuilders to department store clerks, stopped working. The nation was paralyzed—no sector of the workplace was untouched. Yet, just thirty years later, the mainstream image of May '68 in France has become that of a mellow youth revolt, a cultural transformation stripped of its violence and profound sociopolitical implications. Kristin Ross shows how the current official memory of May '68 came to serve a political agenda antithetical to the movement's aspirations. She examines the roles played by sociologists, repentant ex-student leaders, and the mainstream media in giving what was a political event a predominantly cultural and ethical meaning. Recovering the political language of May '68 through the tracts, pamphlets, and documentary film footage of the era, Ross reveals how the original movement, concerned above all with the question of equality, gained a new and counterfeit history, one that erased police violence and the deaths of participants, removed workers from the picture, and eliminated all traces of anti-Americanism, anti-imperialism, and the influences of Algeria and Vietnam. May '68 and Its Afterlives is especially timely given the rise of a new mass political movement opposing global capitalism, from labor strikes and anti-McDonald's protests in France to the demonstrations against the World Trade Organization in Seattle.

May '68 and Its Afterlives

Using the concept of the everyday as a lever for social transformation The texts in this volume represent Kristin Ross’s attempt to think the question of the everyday across a range of discourses, practices and knowledges, from philosophy to history, from the visual arts to popular fiction, all the way to the forms taken by collective political action in the territorial struggles of today. If everyday life is, as many have come to believe, the ideal vantage point for an analysis of the social, it is also the crucial first step in its transformation. The volume opens with a return to Henri Lefebvre’s powerful attempt to use the everyday as both residue and resource, as the site of profound alienation and—by the same token—the site where all emancipatory initiatives and desires begin. The second section focuses on our attempts to represent our lived reality to ourselves in cultural forms, from painting and literature and film to an analysis of the contemporary transformations of the sub-genre most embedded in the deep superficiality of everyday life: detective fiction. The final section turns to present-day ecological occupations in the wake of the zad at Notre-Dame-des-Landes, and locates the everyday as a site for rich oppositional resources and immanent social creativity.

The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life

Andrew Ross

Seventeen important modern thinkers offer an examination of the causes and effects of the world's animosity for America, including an in-depth look at how different cultures experience and express anti-American sentiment, and the implications these attitudes have for modern foreign policy. Simultaneous.

Anti-Americanism

The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune

Communal Luxury

The 1870s in France - Rimbaud's moment, and the subject of this book - is a decade virtually ignored in most standard histories in France. Yet it was the moment of two significant spatial events: France's expansion on a global scale, and, in the spring of 1871, the brief existence on the Paris Commune - the construction of the revolutionary urban space. Arguing that space, as a social fact, is always political and strategic, Kristin Ross has written a book that is at once a history and geography of the Commune's anarchist culture - its political language and social relations, its values, strategies, and stances. Central to her analysis of the Commune as a social space and oppositional culture is a close textual reading of Arthur Rimabaud's poetry. His poems - a common thread running through the book - are one set of documents among many in Ross's recreation of the Communard experience. Rimbaud, Paul Lafargue, and the social geographer lise Reclus serve as emblematic figures moving within and on the periphery of the Commune; in their resistance to the logic and economy of the capitalist conception of work, in their challenge to work itself as a term of identity, all three posed a threat to the existing order. Ross looks at these and other emancipatory notions as aspects of Communard life, each with an analogous strategy in Rimbaud's poetry. Applying contemporary theory, to a wealth of little-known archival material, she has written a fresh, persuasive, and original book.

Rimbaud and the Paris Commune

The Emergence of Social Space

Baltimore Museum of Art

Jay McKean Fisher

Oliver Shell

Thomas Primeau

"This exhibition explores the 43-year friendship between artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and Baltimore collector Etta Cone (1870-1949). More than 160 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and illustrated books provide new insights into the formation of the renowned Cone Collection, one of the greatest collections of modern art in the United States. Etta, with her older sister Claribel (1864-1929), acquired more than 700 works by Matisse between 1906 and 1949 and bequeathed the majority of them to the BMA as part of a gift of 3,000 objects. Etta's dedication and curiosity ultimately lent the Cone collection its characteristic depth and breadth. After accepting Etta's invitation to visit her in Baltimore in 1930, Matisse realized he could have a major U.S. presence, and began creating and offering Etta specific works of art with the Cone collection in mind." Among these works are masterpieces such as The Yellow Dress (1929-31) and Large Reclining Nude (1935), rarely shown drawings, and the preliminary studies for his first illustrated book, Poems by Stéphane Mallarmé (1932). The works in the exhibition are generally arranged by acquisition date, demonstrating Cone's increasingly discerning eye for Matisse's work throughout their long partnership. A fully illustrated catalog accompanying the exhibition contains new scholarship on the formal, technical, and social aspects of the decades-long working partnership between artist and patron.

Henri Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore

A Modern Influence

Este é um livro sobre as repercussões de Maio de 68, sobre as formas como o movimento que teve seu epicentro na França, há cinquenta anos, foi sobrepujado por representações subsequentes. Ele também expõe resistências e permanências nos campos da memória, contra as formas de amnésia social e instrumentalização que procuraram desmanchar o evento histórico, as sociologias que o explicaram e lideranças estudantis que tentaram monopolizar sua memória.

Maio de 68 e suas repercussões

La memoria es un espacio de lucha: el recuerdo no es algo que el poder pueda dejar sin gobernar, sobre todo el recuerdo de un momento que cambió el curso de las vidas y la realidad misma. En mayo de 2008 se cumplirán 40 años del célebre movimiento de Mayo del 68, la mayor huelga general de la historia de Francia y la única insurrección generalizada que ha experimentado el mundo "desarrollado" en la segunda mitad del siglo xx. La "memoria reactiva" (política, mediática, cultural) reduce el acontecimiento a una algarada estudiantil, a un conflicto generacional, a una cuestión de hormonas, a una aceleración brusca hacia la modernidad (explosión del individualismo hedonista, liberación de las costumbres), etc. Busca neutralizar lo político: las rupturas y los disfuncionamientos, la manifestación de nuevas subjetividades, irrepresentables política o sociológicamente, el surgimiento de otras formas de concebir el lazo social, la comunidad, el porvenir. Este libro trata precisamente sobre las vidas posteriores de Mayo del 68: sobre la forma en que el acontecimiento se ha visto reemplazado por sucesivas representaciones; pero también sobre cómo su carácter disruptivo ha sobrevivido por diferentes vías a los intentos de aniquilación, a las formas de amnesia e instrumentalización sociales que han tratado de anularlo, a los sociólogos que lo han explicado y a los antiguos líderes estudiantiles que se han apropiado del monopolio de su memoria. Mayo del 68 y sus vidas posteriores es el primer libro de una colección dedicada a rescatar una memoria viva de aquel acontecimiento.

Ensayo contra la despolitización de la memoria

Mayo del 68 y sus vidas posteriores

Offre une analyse critique de la façon dont la mémoire officielle de 1968 a été façonnée pour servir des intérêts politiques étrangers aux aspirations propres propres à ce mouvement. L'auteure examine le rôle joué par le discours sociologique, certains ex-leaders estudiantins repentis et le flot de commémorations télévisées diffusées en France entre 1970 et 1980.

Mai 68 et ses vies ultérieures

Tom Bishop

Peter Brunette

Grey Art Gallery & Study Center

Shelley Rice

Michèle C. Cone

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts

Thomas W.. Sokolowski

A collection of essays on the quotidian in philosophy, cinema, theater, photography, and other visual arts in postwar France, published in conjunction with an exhibition of contemporary French artists at the Grey Art Gallery of New York University in spring 1997. Includes many color photos. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Quotidian in Postwar French Culture

The Art of the Everyday

Fast Cars, Clean Bodies examines the crucial decade from Dien Bien Phu to the mid-1960s when France shifted rapidly from an agrarian, insular, and empire-oriented society to a decolonized, Americanized, and fully industrial one. In this analysis of a startling cultural transformation Kristin Ross finds the contradictions of the period embedded in its various commodities and cultural artifacts—automobiles, washing machines, women's magazines, film, popular fiction, even structuralism—as well as in the practices that shape, determine, and delimit their uses. In each of the book's four chapters, a central object of mythical image is refracted across a range of discursive and material spaces: social and private, textual and cinematic, national and international. The automobile, the new cult of cleanliness in the capital and the colonies, the waning of Sartre and de Beauvoir as the couple of national attention, and the emergence of reshaped, functionalist masculinities (revolutionary, corporate, and structural) become the key elements in this prehistory of postmodernism in France. Modernization ideology, Ross argues, offered the promise of limitless, even timeless, development. By situating the rise of "end of history" ideologies within the context of France's transition into mass culture and consumption, Ross returns the touted timelessness of modernization to history. She shows how the realist fiction and film of the period, as well as the work of social theorists such as Barthes, Lefebvre, and Morin who began at the time to conceptualize "everyday life," laid bare the disruptions and the social costs of events. And she argues that the logic of the racism prevalent in France today, focused on the figure of the immigrant worker, is itself the outcome of the French state's embrace of capitalist modernization ideology in the 1950s and 1960s.

Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture

Fast Cars, Clean Bodies

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