1968–2018 Conference: '1968 and the Struggle Against Technocracy'

Andrew Feenberg
Public Lecture
November 3, 2018

Co-sponsored by SFU's Institute for the Humanities, Department of Humanities, J.S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), Department of History, School of Communication, SFU Public Square, and the Lacan Salon.

On the 50th anniversary of 1968, this conference will consider various aspects of “the Sixties” in the light of what has developed since considering how it affects our current situation and its prospects: from women’s liberation to contemporary feminism, indigenous politics then and now, the philosophical situation of the 1960s, changes in labour and labour politics, the role of SFU and Vancouver, from anti-psychiatry to contemporary therapies. The speakers will take up one of the strands of the politics and culture of the 1960s to illuminate contemporary concerns.

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Posted for my friend Professor Dennis Pilon at York University who lost his Phd supervisor and friend Leo Panitch in the past year.Leo and Andrew were two of the stronger thinkers of the Western Left or so it seems to me from the generation of 1968.I was there that day when Andrew gave this talk at the SFU Conference in Vancouver on 1968, Andrew was in Paris in May of 1968 with Marcuse.To actually to have heard him talk of Paris in May 1968 was one of the great moments of my life. He does have a sense of humour-looks at history from a queer angle seems to me as Forster said of Cavafy. As a Jew and Marxist how could he not have?!!!Don