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Portrait of Balibar
by Critical Edges 2021-10-14 Number of comments0
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The event of ‘May 68’ revolutionized thought and strengthened the possibilities of resistance

The philosopher Étienne Balibar views the uprising in France in 1968 as the point where we went “from a monolithic conception of power centered around the state, to a conception of the multiple forms of domination.” According to the already influential Marxist philosopher, the coordinates of liberating thought were thus changed permanently