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Introduction : global revolutionary aesthetics and politics after Paris 1968 /William Cloonan, Barry J. Faulk, Martin Munro, and Christian P. Weber. -1968-past, present, future : models of art and activism in Jannis Kounelli's Senza titolo (Untitled), 1969 /Chris Bennett. -Quebec Spring, a new May 1968? /Timo Obergöker. -Ghosts for the present : countercultural aesthetics and postcoloniality for contemporary Italy. The work of Wu Ming 2 and Fare Ala /Tenley Bick. -Fac Soixante-Huitarde : the centre universitaire expérimental de Vincennes and the afterlife of a revolutionary moment /Paul Cohen. -Class struggle : Ascanio Celestini, Nanni Balestrini, and the living legacy of the Italian 1968 /Giuseppina Mecchia. -Recalibrating memories : the divergent afterlife of Northern Ireland's 1968 /Chris Reynolds. -Conflicts of class, race, and sexuality : reading Leïla Slimani's Chanson douce (2016) and Dans le jardin de l'ogre (2014) through Julia Kristeva's Post-'68 feminism /Valérie K. Orlando. -Aftereffects of May 1968 on men and women according to Michel Houellebecq /Alexis L. Chauchois and Gilles Glacet. -timeless spirit : revolutionary aesthetics in Roberto Bolaño's Amulet /Augustus O'Neill. The year 2018 marked the fiftieth anniversary of May '68, a startling, by now almost mythic event which combined seriousness, courage, humor and theatrics. The contributions of this volume--based on papers presented the conference Does "la lutte continue"? The Global Afterlife of May '68 at Florida State University in March 2019--explore the ramifications of that springtime protest in the contemporary world. What has widely become known as the movement of '68 consisted, in fact, of many synchronous movements in different nations that promoted a great variety of political, social, and cultural agendas. While it is impossible to write a global history of '68, this volume presents a kaleidoscope of different perceptions, reflections, and receptions of protest in France, Italy, and other nations that share in common a global utopian imaginary as expressed, for example, in the slogan: "All power to the imagination!" The contributions of this collection show that, while all social struggles are political, many lasting changes in individual mentalities and social structures originated from utopian ideas that were realized first in artistic productions and their aesthetic reception. In this respect the various protests of May '68 continue
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