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Sam and Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen talk about Mikkel's new book on 'Late Capitalist Fascism'. What do Guy Debord and George Jackson have to tell us about the fascists we face today? What kinds of capitalist decomposition are giving rise to fascism? Get the book here: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=late-capitalist-fascism--9781509547432
Lanseringen av Kritiker #53-54, Litteratur på Blå, tirsdag 28. januar kl. 19.30! Opplesninger med: Gunnhild Øyehaug, Hans Petter Blad, Alice Setane Gyberg, Ulla Svalheim og Julia Wiedlocha. OM KRITIKER #53-54, "Mellom fortid og fremtid" I dette nummeret av Kritiker har vi samlet et utvalg tekster som utforsker fortidens forestillinger om fremtiden og nåtidens forståelse av historien. Tekstene undersøker hvordan fremtidsvisjoner og utopier har sitt utspring i fortidige mentaliteter og tankegods. Nummeret blander skjønnlitteratur og sakprosa som forsøker å forstyrre vår vante forståelse av fortid og fremtid, som utfordrer den herskende forståelsen av tid og som trekker, sliter og tøyer i nået de er skrevet i. Julia Wiedlocha og Benjamin Yazdan, redaktører. BIDRAGSYTERE #53-54 Kjersti Bale, Hans Petter Blad, Ola Mile Bruland, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Alice Setane Gyberg, Ingvil Hellstrand, Helge Jordheim, Roskva Koritzinsky, Karin Kukkonen, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Ragnhild Evang Reinton, Ulla Svalheim, Even Teistung, Fanny Wacklin Nilsson, Julia Wiedlocha, Benjamin Yazdan, Ylva Østby, Gunnhild Øyehaug MER INFO www.kritiker.nu kritiker@natverkstan.net
The situationist movement has been an important inspiration for group foundations in Europe, including Group 66 in Norway, and is crucial to the Nordic aesthetics as it’s seen internationally. Through the seminar Art as Force on situationism in the Nordic region we want to establish an understanding of the Nordic tradition we come from. Part 1 - International Situationism: Introduction by Karoline Skuseth. With contributions from Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen and André Eiermann. Moderator: Ine Therese Berg. The seminar was part of Positions - discursive program during the international dance festival Oktoberdans 2018 produced by BIT Teatergarasjen, and presented in collaboration with The University of Bergen, theatre studies and KODE.
Here is the audio from our evening of conversation with art historian and cultural critic Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen to mark the release of his new collection of essays, "After the Great Refusal". "After the Great Refusal" offers a Western-Marxist reading of contemporary art focusing on the continued presence (or absence) of the avant-garde’s transgressive impulse. Taking art’s ability to contribute to a potential radical social transformation as its point of departure, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen analyses the relationship between the current neoliberal hegemony and contemporary art, including relational aesthetics and interventionist art, new institutionalism and post-modern architecture. Mikkel Bolt Rassmusen is an art historian and cultural critic. He is Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, and is co-editor of the journals K&K and Mr. Antipyrine. He is the author of many books in Danish and two previous books in English: Playmates and Playboys at a Higher Level: J.V. Martin and the Situationist International (Sternberg Press S.À.R.L., 2014) and Crisis to Insurrection (Minor Compositions, 2015). He has two forthcoming books in English from Zero Books: "After the Great Refusal" and "Trump's Counter-Revolution". He has published articles about anti-capitalist activism, the revolutionary tradition, and the Situationist International, in journals such as e-flux journal, Multitudes, Rethinking Marxism, Texte zur Kunst, and Third Text. He has co-edited Totalitarian Art and Modernity (Aarhus University Press, 2010, co-edited with Jacob Wamberg), Expect Everything Fear Nothing: The Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere (Autonomedia, 2011, co-edited with Jakob Jakobsen), and Cosmonauts of the Future: Texts from the Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere (Autonomedia, 2015, co-edited with Jakob Jakobsen). Other recent activities include the exhibition “This World We Must Leave” (made in collaboration with Jakob Jakobsen) at Kunsthall Oslo, Dec. 2016-Jan-2017).
Hør kritiker og skribent i Vagant, Christian Johannes Idskov, i samtale med Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, kunsthistoriker og lektor i moderne kultur ved Københavns Universitet. I sin nyeste bok, Trumps kontrarevolution, diskuterer Mikkel Bolt hvordan vi skal forstå det reaksjonære svar på samfunnsutviklingen som valget av Donald Trump og resten av den høyrepopulistiske bølgen er uttrykk for.