May ‘68 has shown that without project, without conjuration, in the suddenness of a happy
May ‘68 has shown that without project, without conjuration, in the suddenness of a happy meeting, like a feast that breached the admitted and expected social norms, explosive communication could affirm itself (affirm itself beyond the usual forms of affirmation) as the opening that gave permission to everyone, without distinction of class, age, sex or culture, to mix with the first comer as if with an already loved being, precisely because he was the unknown-familiar. Maurice Blanchot, The Unavowable Community (La communauté inavouable). -- source link
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