On the poverty of student life : considered in its economic, political, psychological, sexual, and particularly intellectual aspects, with a modes͡t proposal for its remedy / Members of the Situationis͡t International and Students from Strasbourg ; edited by Mehdi El Hajoui and Anna O'Meara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Internationale situationniste, author.

Université de Strasbourg, author.

Khayati, Mustapha, author, interviewee.

Contributor:

Internationale situationniste, author.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Université de Strasbourg, author.

El Hajoui, Mehdi, editor.

O'Meara, Anna G., editor.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Student movements--France--Strasbourg--History--20th century.

Student movements.

College students--Political activity--France--Strasbourg.

College students.

Student publications--France--Strasbourg--History--20th century.

Student publications.

Université de Strasbourg--Students--Political activity.

Université de Strasbourg.

Khayati, Mustapha--Interviews.

Khayati, Mustapha.

De la misère en milieu étudiant--Bibliography.

De la misère en milieu étudiant.

Physical Description:

372 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : Common Notions, [2022]

Language Note:

English and French.

Summary:

"When the Situationist International was a little known revolutionary art group, before Guy Debord's philosophical masterpiece The Society of the Spectacle was published, and before Paris' universities were occupied in May '68, a pamphlet titled On the Poverty of Student Life that recognized and described student and youth alienation lit a spark that would ignite a global revolt. Alongside its analysis, the way the pamphlet was printed and distributed spread that fire. For the first editions, supporters of the SI (mis)appropriated school funds to make 10,000 copies of the pamphlet. From there, dozens of editions were produced by worker- and student-run printing presses around the world, from Paris to East London, from Tokyo to Detroit. This new edition of On the Poverty of Student Life highlights this global underground circulation and brings attention to the common conditions of students and workers--bringing that historic reckoning to the present. Featuring a legendary early handwritten draft alongside the first French edition, the original English adaptation by former SI member and celebrated translator Donald Nicholson-Smith, an interview with primary author Mustapha Khayati where he traces the pamphlet's historical legacy from the university to the street, essays about the political relevence of the manifesto, and beautiful reproductions of over one hundred different editions, this book provides a cartography of an uprising"--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Situating On the Poverty of Student Life

Preface: "The Most Scandalous Pamphlet of This Century" / Mehdi El Hajoui

Introduction: Zengakuren: How a Japanese Student Union Influenced the SI / Anna O'Meara

On the Poverty of Student Life, Past and Present: Mustapha Khayati interviewed by Mehdi El Hajoui [in English and French] / Mehdi El Hajoui

On the Poverty of Student Life: The Black & Red Edition / Allan Antliff

II. On the Poverty of Student Life

Ten Days That Shook the University: A Note on an Adaptation / Donald Nicholson-Smith

Ten Days That Shook the University (1967) / T.J. Clark

De la misere en milieu etudiant, consideree sous ses aspects economique, politique, psychologique, sexuel et notamment intellectuel et de quelques moyens pour y remedier: An Early Draft of the First Chapter (1966) / Mustapha Khayati

De la misere en milieu etudiant, consideree sous ses aspects economique, politique, psychologique, sexuel et notamment intellectuel et de quelques moyens pour y remedier (1966) / Members of the Situationist International and Students from Strasbourg

III. Cataloging On the Poverty of Student Life

On the Poverty of Student Life: An Illustrated Bibliography [in English and French] / Anna O'Meara.

Notes:

Translation of De la misère en milieu étudiant, a pamphlet first circulated in Strasbourg in 1966 and published in 1967 as a supplement to Internationale situationiste bulletin.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Contains:

De la misère en milieu étudiant.

De la misère en milieu étudiant. English.

ISBN:

1942173571

9781942173571

OCLC:

1267687118

Publisher Number:

99991055430