V1.1 Theoretic Action

The significance of working within and outside of the walls of the academy was evident when the workers and students converged in Paris, Mexico City and in the streets and campuses of the United States in 1968 to give voice to democratic, political, and social movements – consequently changing the trajectory of history. Theoretic action inaugurates a new discourse on the political role of aesthetics and space in contemporary culture.

CONTENTS

Milton S. F. Curry
You Feel Me?

Peter Gilgen
Signs of History: 1968

Naomi Beckwith
The Aesthetic of Revolutionary Intent

Justin A. Doro
Project of the American Dream: Founding Visions of the American City

Richard M. Sommer and Glenn Forley
Highway Beautiful: The 1965 Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March

William F. Buckley, Jr. and Huey P. Newton
Firing Line: How Does It Go with the Black Movement?

Interview with Lance Wyman
Branding a Cityscape: Mexico City Olympics 1968

Interview with Michael Gross
1968 Mexico City Cultural Programs

Hank Willis Thomas
B®anded/Unbranded

Amanda Wojick
1968 Life

Mounir Fatmi
Out of History and History of History

Raymond Depardon
Tanks on the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, Mexico City 1968