3 items relating to the Antiuniversity of London


Book Description
1) The Antiuniversity of London: catalogue
London: Trigram Press [1968]
8-page stapled pamphlet with brown paper covers: vertical fold and damage to lower spine area.
Ahead of first registration (22 January 1968) and lacking the appearance of later luminaries in the eventual faculty list, this is believed to be the first iteration of 3 such catalogues known.
Statement: ‘The Antiuniversity of London has been founded in response to intellectual bankruptcy and spiritual emptiness of the educational establishment both in Britain and the rest of the Western World […]’
A group of radicals met in London from December 1967 through January 1968 to plan for the creation of an "anti-university"; they included anti-psychiatrists R. D. Laing and David Cooper; veterans of the Free University of New York, Allen Krebs and Joe Berke; the feminist psychoanalyst Juliet Mitchell; and the cultural theorist Stuart Hall. The experiment lasted about a year at 49 Rivington Street and as diaspora in various locations.
Latterly, Juliet Mitchell persuaded one of her students, Diana Gravill, to set up a bookshop with her partner on Camden High Street in 1968. Compendium Books went on to become a hub for radical literature for 30 years before closing in 2000.
2) Schedule of Meetings - Antiuniversity WINTER 1968. (Begins Feb 12)
Single-sided foolscap typed sheet with a seven-day schedule
3) Catalogue Supplement.
Two-sided foolscap typed sheet listing new lecturers and their special subjects
Author
Krebs, Allen; Berke, Joe
Date
1968
Binding
Soft
Publisher
London: Trigram Press
Condition
Good
Pages
11
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