המורשת העמומה של 68'
The Ambiguous Legacy of ‘68 Forty years ago, what was revolutionized -- the world or capitalism? By Slavoj Žižek June 20, 2008 In 1968 Paris, one of the best-known graffiti messages on the city's walls was "Structures do not walk on the streets!" In other words, the massive student and workers demonstrations of '68 could not be explained in the terms of structuralism, as determined by the structural changes in society, as in Saussurean structuralism. French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan's response was that this, precisely, is what happened in '68: structures did descend onto the streets. The visible explosive events on the streets were, ultimately, the result of a structural imbalance. There are good reasons for Lacan's skeptical view. As French scholars Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello noted in 1999's The New Spirit of Capitalism , from the '70s onward, a new form of capitalism emerged. Capitalism abandoned the hierarchical For...