5.7.5 (haikus for radicals and revolutionaries)

Archigram

a neon revolt
of impermanent design
culture sleeps awake

Superstudio

fanciful cynics
unite cities and cosmos
love and fear are free

(an ode to the May '68 student revolt)

the youth of Paris
who "forbidden to forbid"*
freed the red brick soul

...and a warning to Tech students
(in jest)

chained faculty will
land you in prison orange
get your degree first



*Il est interdit d'interdire (it is forbidden to forbid) was a slogan of the 1968 riots.

Plutôt la vie was another slogan of the '68 unrest and came from the title of a poem by André Breton. The basic translation of the phrase is "life instead" or "life rather."