Fifty years after May 68, spring 2018 in France was marked by mass student protest against the Parcoursup/ORE reform of university entry. After a riot police intervention on campus, Nanterre University was blocked and occupied. It was profoundly affected, both as a community and as a physical site. This linguistic ethnographic study proposes a systematic analysis of more than 500 physical interventions (political graffiti, tags and posters) on the campus during that period, to identify the functions of graffiti as political discourse. The graffiti (1) expressed resistance, reclaimed the university’s identity and manifested presence on site; (2) established dialogue with local and national authorities and (3) anchored the movement in a larger web of historical references and sites of political resistance. A striking feature was the complex indexicality of the graffiti. Each item was relevant at multiple scales beyond the here and now, anchoring graffiti in larger networks of relations, which endowed them with political power.

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2018 年 5 月南泰尔大学的政治涂鸦：语言人种学分析

68 年 5 月 50 年后，法国 2018 年春季的标志是大规模学生抗议 Parcoursup/ORE 大学入学改革。在防暴警察干预校园后，南泰尔大学被封锁和占领。无论是作为一个社区还是作为一个物理站点，它都受到了深刻的影响。这项语言人种学研究建议对那个时期校园内 500 多种物理干预（政治涂鸦、标签和海报）进行系统分析，以确定涂鸦作为政治话语的功能。涂鸦（1）表达了抵抗，重新获得了大学的身份并在现场表现出存在感；(2) 与地方和国家当局建立对话，以及 (3) 将运动锚定在更大的历史参考和政治抵抗地点的网络中。一个显着的特点是涂鸦的复杂索引。每个项目在超越此时此地的多个尺度上都具有相关性，将涂鸦锚定在更大的关系网络中，这赋予了他们政治权力。