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Call Number	Thesis MA:A&P 2010 BenacerrafN
Author	Benacerraf, Nicolas M.
Title	The unintended revolution : a Rancierian analysis of SDS, the Weathermen, and the end of the student left.
Publisher	California Institute of the Arts.
Date	Fall 2010.
Format	89 leaves.
Reader(s)	Matthew McGarvey.
Abstract	In 1969, at the height of a revolutionary political movement, a group of radical student activists calling themselves the Weathermen took control of Students for a Democratic Society, the radical organization responsible for organizing hundreds of thousands of students against the Vietnam war. The Weathermen initiated a series of coordinated domestic bombings designed to inspire a revolution against the American government, leaving the wreckage of the student movement in its wake. Jacques Ranciere's unique redefinition of democratic politics offers new insights towards the strengths of the student movement's ascent and the weaknesses that contributed to its decline. Chapter 1 reveals SDS as a quintessential Rancierian movement, until it adopted more militant tactics in 1967. Chapter 2 explains the process by which SDS discarded the conditions of its success, while generating a temporary, yet unsustainable, explosion in the movement's participation. Chapter 3 adapts Ranciere's theories to offer an explanation for the Weathermen's failed revolution. Ultimately the student movement's decline offers essential guidance for the efforts of future activists, revealing possible approaches to heighten the frequency with which political movements occur within societies that call themselves democratic.
Subject	Student work.
Program	MA Aesthetics and Politics.
School	School of Critical Studies.

The unintended revolution : a Rancierian analysis of SDS, the Weathermen, and the end of the student left.

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