1968
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Leslie Fiedler's essay "Cross the Border — Close the Gap" was first given in 1968 at the University of Freiburg and published first in the German weekly Christ und Welt. "In short, I suggest that at least part of the thick description of what le Penseur is trying to do in saying things to himself is that he is trying, by success/failure tests, to find out whether or not the things that he is saying would or would not be utilisable as leads or pointers."--"What is 'Le Penseur' Doing?", 1968, Gilbert Ryle |
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1968 was the year of the Protests of 1968.
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Art and culture
- Protests of 1968
- Situationist International at its apex
- First issue of King Mob Echo magazine
- April 4 - Assassination of Martin Luther King
- 6 May - Start of the May 1968 events in France
- June 3 - Valerie Solanas, author of The SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
- November 1 - In the United States, the MPAA's film rating system is introduced.
Music
- Upsetter Records founded
- The word reggae is coined on a 1968 Pyramid dance single, "Do the Reggay" (sic) by Toots and the Maytals
Singles
- Can I Change My Mind by Tyrone Davis
- Requiem pour un con by Serge Gainsbourg
- Grazing in the Grass by Hugh Masekela
- Don't Bogart Me by Fraternity of Man
- Man with a Harmonica by Ennio Morricone
- On the Road Again by Canned Heat
- Feel Like Jumping by Marcia Griffiths
- Man Next Door by John Holt
- People Funny Boy by Lee "Scratch" Perry
- Full Up by Sound Dimension
- Crimson and Clover by Tommy James and the Shondells
- Everyday People by Sly and the Family Stone
- You Goin' Miss Your Candyman by Terry Callier
- Drum Song by Jackie Mittoo
- The Horse by Cliff Nobles
- Vesoul by Jacques Brel
Albums
- Musique du Burundi by various
- Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka recorded, released in 1971
- Sweetheart of the Rodeo by The Byrds
- The Soft Machine by Soft Machine
- Silver Apples by Silver Apples
- Astral Weeks by Van Morrison
- Caetano Veloso by Caetano Veloso
- Feliciano! by José Feliciano
Film
- November 1 - The MPAA's film rating system is introduced.
Canon
- Teorema by Pasolini
- 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick
- Targets by Peter Bogdanovich
- The Party by Blake Edwards
- If... by Lindsay Anderson
- Rosemary's Baby by Roman Polanski
- Night of the Living Dead by George A. Romero
- Petulia by Richard Lester
- The Color of Pomegranates by Sergei Paradjanov
- Witchfinder General by Michael Reeves
- The Secret Cinema by Paul Bartel
- Black Panthers by Agnès Varda
Guilty pleasures
- La Prisonnière by Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Death Laid an Egg by Giulio Questi
- Psych-Out by Richard Rush
- I Am Curious (Blue) by Vilgot Sjöman
- They Call Us Misfits - Swedish documentary
- Barbarella by Vadim
- Candy by Christian Marquand
- Necronomicon - Geträumte Sünden by Jesus Franco
- Sweden: Heaven and Hell by Luigi Scattini
- The Howl by Tinto Brass
Literature
Fiction
- Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
- Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife by William H. Gass
Non fiction
- Smut: An Anatomy of Dirt by Christian Enzensberger
- Kitsch: The world of Bad Taste by Dorfles
- The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes
- Bomb Culture by Jeff Nuttall
- Rationale of the Dirty Joke by Gershon Legman
- Difference and Repetition by Gilles Deleuze
- "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm" by Anne Koedt
- "A Quick Trip Through My Adolescence" by Lester Bangs
- Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider by Peter Gay
- The Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrlich
Visual culture
- Che Guevara poster by Jim Fitzpatrick
- The Kronhausens' The First International Exhibition of Erotic Art took place in public museums in the cities of Lund, Sweden, and Aarhus, Denmark.
- Chelsea Girls (Alan Aldridge poster)
- Tapp und Tastkino, performance art by Valie Export
Births
- Green Velvet aka Curtis Jones, an electronic and house music singer, songwriter and producer
- Chris Ofili
- Kodwo Eshun
- Monica Bellucci
Deaths
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- Erwin Panofsky (1892 - 1968)
- Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889 - 1968)
- Mervyn Peake (1911 - 1968)
- John Heartfield, German photographer and activist (b. 1891)
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