Kristin Ross

Kristin Ross is professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author of May ’68 and Its Afterlives (2002) and Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune(2015).

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22 May 1968: Students taking part in France's eight million person general strike mingle on the grounds of the Sorbonne University in Paris. (Photograph by Bettmann/Contributor)

Against commemoration: what happened after May 1968

In thinking about the practice of defence as more productive than that of resistance, Kristin Ross maps out France’s revolutionary moment from its ‘third-worldist’ roots.

By: Kristin Ross
1 Feb 2019