Mustapha Khayati is a

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social critic Social criticism is a form of academic or journalistic criticism focusing on social issues in contemporary society, in particular with respect to perceived injustices and power relations in general. Social criticism of the Enlightenment The orig ...

. Mustapha Khayati was a member of the

Situationist International The Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists. It was prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution ...

in the 1960s. Though collaborating with other Situationists, he was the chief author of the pamphlet ''De la misère en milieu étudiant considérée sous ses aspects économique, politique, psychologique, sexuelet notamment intellectuel et de quelques moyens pour y remédier'' (English: ''On the Poverty of Student Life Considered in Its Economic, Political, Psychological, Sexual, and Especially Intellectual Aspects, With a Modest Proposal for Doing Away With It'', aka ''

On the Poverty of Student Life ''On the Poverty of Student Life: A Consideration of Its Economic, Political, Sexual, Psychological and Notably Intellectual Aspects and of a Few Ways to Cure it'' (french: De la misère en milieu étudiant considérée sous ses aspects économiq ...

''). This pamphlet has been translated into English by Chris Gray and

Ken Knabb Ken Knabb (born 1945) is an American writer, translator, and radical theorist, known for his translations of Guy Debord and the Situationist International. His own English-language writings, many of which were anthologized in ''Public Secrets'' (1 ...

. Ten thousand copies of ''

'' were printed at the expense of the Association Fédérative Générale des Étudiants de Strasbourg. Attacking the miserable conditions and subservient attitudes of university students and student radicals in capitalist societies, the pamphlet caused significant uproar, helped in the dissemination of Situationist ideas, and contributed to the emergence of the movement of

May 1968 in France Beginning in May 1968, a period of civil unrest occurred throughout France, lasting some seven weeks and punctuated by demonstrations, general strikes, as well as the occupation of universities and factories. At the height of events, which ha ...

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* * * * * Mustapha Khayati Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. {{Authority control Situationists May 1968 events in France Tunisian political scientists 20th-century births Possibly living people Year of birth missing