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<div align="center"><font size="+2"><b>Wolfgang
Scheppe</b></font></div>
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IN MAY 1968</b><br>
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<div align="center">An iconographic taxonomy-researched,
conceived, and ideated by Wolfgang Scheppe, who is also author of the
book's final essay-that traces the state and police visual control
through almost 500 images from the May 1968 police archives in
Paris.</div>
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<div align="center">The pictorial order of a regime of surveillance
applied during the last wide-ranging insurgence in Europe's history
surfaces from the analysis of this unique visual archive. Following
the events happening at the Sorbonne in May 1968, alongside general
strikes and nationwide factory occupations, France's state of
emergency becomes apparent through a specific iconography of visual
control.</div>
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<div align="center">This critical moment in the development of
governmental visualisation strategies toward a totalitarian god's
perspective on the urban fabric has been researched and documented for
the first time, by employing the vast photo archives of the Archives
de la Préfecture de police de Paris. Among other characteristics
typologies of authoritative monitoring aspects, the events in May '68
marked the historic beginning of the deployment of helicopter based
aerial photography as a means of governmental crowd control in a
situation of escalating insurrection. The political will to gain an
unobstructed view on any individual motion pattern represented in the
project leads to epistemically-new technologies that combine
observation with political governance, and the use of force as
recently manifested in the agency of drones and face
recognition. <br>
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<div align="center">In 2019, the project was awarded the<b> FLAT
Prize</b>.<br>
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<div align="center"><b>Wolfgang Scheppe</b> lives between Switzerland
and Venice, where he has been teaching political philosophy. He is the
head of the Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation in
Venice and the author of extensive research works that culminated in
many book projects and international exhibitions.<br>
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