The origins of postmodern criticism

Collective imaginations of 1967-69

Abstract

In this reconstruction of the importance of the student social movements that marked the years 1967-1969, our attempt to reformulate the terms of a varied and multipolarized critique of institutionalism and academicism of knowledge is combined with an analysis of the constituent spaces of the movementist social relation (ie campus: Berkeley and Nanterre). The possible analogy between the campus as a knowledge-producing space and the "reproductive" skills of knowledge and the factory as a place of production of embodied technical knowledge also explains the imaginary strength of a student movement and worker able to mark the global collective imagination and his memory to date.