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[Radical Action Cooperative ; Council for Liberation of Imagination]. [Samizdat on the 1968-9 Harvard protests]. Cambridge, MA: n.p., ca. 1968-1969. n.p. [14 p.]; 21 x 29 cm.; black ink on xeroxed white stock. Samizdat of hastily photocopied texts by the the Radical Action Cooperative (King Collins et al.) / Council for Conscious Existence / Council for Liberation of Daily Life, with an early1970s provenance. Most of the texts are unaccounted (all but one are missing from Ken Knabb’s archive at Yale), but all relate to the brief, chaotic intervention at Harvard University in the spring of New York-based Radical Action Cooperative (RAC), which had originally formed on the margins of the Spring 1968 Columbia University strikes, migrated north to Cambridge the following year. While the mainstream American section of the Situationist International famously dismissed King Collins’ cohort as “ideologists of daily life” who staged “unimaginative confrontations,” these texts reveal a highly…

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