Mustapha Khayati

Mustapha Khayati was a member of the Situationist International in the 1960s.[1] Together with Guy Debord, he wrote the pamphlet "On Misery in the Student Environment, Considered Under Its Economic, Political, Sexual, and Especially Intellectual Aspects, and about Some Remedies to Remedy Them" in 1966.[2] Ten thousand copies were printed at the expense of the Association Fédérative Générale des Étudiants de Strasbourg.[3]

Mustapha Khayati with Alice Becker-Ho, 1966.

Mustapha Khayati is a Tunisian social critic.

He also wrote the pamphlet On the Poverty of Student Life.[4] Attacking the subservience of university students and the strategies of student radicals, it caused significant uproar, led to the dissemination of Situationist ideas, and precipitated the events of May 1968 in France. His pamphlet was translated into English by Chris Gray.[5]

References
  1. Willener, Alfred (2013). The Action-Image of Society on Cultural Politicization. Routledge. p. 127. ISBN 9781136446924.
  2. Horn, Gerd-Rainer (2007). The Spirit of '68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-1976. Oxford University Press. p. 12. ISBN 9780199276660.
  3. Corcos, Alex. "Mouvement/Occupation/Debout: the Situationist International and their legacy of protest". Modern & Contemporary France – via JSTOR.
  4. Blair, Stanley (17 June 2018). "France '68: When students and workers revolted". Green Left Weekly. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  5. "» King Mob's Chris Gray RIP". Retrieved 2019-11-28.
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