The Les Événements of May 1968 exploded days after the Columbia occupation

Evidence

Columbia fell, but on May 3, shortly after Ginsberg arrived at East Hill Farm, French students shut down the Sorbonne and three days later battled police in the Latin Quarter. Life magazine ran a picture of none other than Jean-Jacques Lebel leading a crowd of students, right fist raised, and a banner-wielding latter-day Marianne seated on his shoulders. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1229

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s question about material conditions of a scene: the Columbia occupation and French May ‘68 unfold in locked step, each feeding the other’s sense of possibility — a cross-border transmission the reader could compare to claims about cultural stagnation now lacking any such transmission mechanism.