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John Maxwell (London: Verso, 2018), 24.Ģ018: On the occasion of the fifty-year anniversary of ‘May 68’ and the publication The Right to the City, Roland - who managed to dodge the laundry van - and a resurrected Henri, return to the same restaurant, now a McDonald’s, and eat a Happy Meal. Ideologically Barthes had left the “city,” but Lefebvre, a prophet of asphalt culture, had not, and in The Production of Space he takes Barthes (along with Marx, Nietzsche and Heidegger) for a walk in the city and in doing so told a story as relevant today as it was then. And, if the right to the city is, as he would later write, the right to the production of space then the right to the city is, before it is anything else, the right to ways of being in the world. His thesis: shifts in modes of production, which are not just technological but ontological revolutions, produce new ways of being in the world which produce new kinds of space.

Donald Nicholson-Smith (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2016). 4 Henri Lefebvre, The Production Of Space, trans. The mechanics of this kind of revolt he would come to articulate, less succinctly but perhaps most presciently in his rambling, difficult to understand and often contradictory but now famed text The Production of Space. Eleonore Kofman and Elizabeth Lebas, (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008). As the forces of capitalism knew all too well, it must lay claim to space, to the routines, practices, and rhythms of everyday life - what in his recently written text he called “the right to the city.” 3 Henri Lefebvre, Writings On Cities, trans. While others sifted through the remains of what would quickly be seen as a failed revolution, Lefebvre held on to the possibility that change was still possible and to be so it must be urban. Over the next two months, the protests would escalate, Barthes would distance himself from the events - the possibility of a utopian realm was not to be found in urban revolt but in text that could exist outside of the realm of power. 1 Michael Kelly, “A Dialogue Between Barthes and Lefebvre,” Yale French Studies 98 (2000): 79–97. Lefebvre - a mentor to many of the key activists - ordered a bottle of good wine.

More than one hundred were injured twenty seriously hundreds more arrested the Sorbonne closed. In search of the beach, the first paving stone of the ‘68 riots was lifted and thrown. Less than a kilometre away in the Latin Quarter surrounding Sorbonne University, students clashed violently with police. On the evening of May 3, 1968, in a restaurant in the Saint-Germain district of Paris, Henri Lefebvre and Roland Barthes had dinner together. 1968: Henri Lefebvre and Roland Barthes order a bottle of good wine

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David Capener reads Henri Lefebvre’s The Right to the City as a useful conceptual framework for understanding and acting in the archive of everyday life-the production of space by new digital technologies.