After '68: The Left and 21st Century Political Projects (New Formations)

This issue takes the fortieth anniversary of 1968 as an opportunity, not to look back but instead, to look forward and in particular to explore the issue of left political possibility. What impact have the political challenges of the post-68 moment had on affirmative left political projects? Has the exercising of critical resources towards negation, as in anti-globalization, consigned progressive politics to the reactive mode of critique? This begs the question of what possibilities exist for building an emancipatory, affirmative politics? What is it that we might imagine, create, and organise around, in principle and in practice, as positive projects? The essays include evaluations of May '68 as an expression of radical immanence, the transformations of capitalism, critical conceptions of cosmopolitanism and humanism, the juxtaposition of Paris '68 and Seattle '99, and the necessity of utopianism. The issue offers a reassessment of '68 and its consequences for contemporary left politics. Also in this issue are articles on Fredric Jameson, and on the fate of Iraq's archaeological heritage.