After the Great Refusal Essays on Contemporary Art, Its Contradictions and Difficulties by MikkelBoltRasmussen Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2018 by Zero Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78535-758-9, ISBN: 1-78535-758-1
"A Western Marxist reading of contemporary art, focusing on the question of the continued presence (or absence) of the avant-garde’s transgressive impulse. Taking art’s ability to contribute to radical social transformation as its point of departure, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen's new title from Zero Books analyses the relationship between the current neoliberal hegemony and contemporary art, including relational aesthetics and interventionist ..."
"The crisis runs deep. The economies of the US and Europe are in profound crisis and the developing economies are also beginning to feel its effects. Everywhere it is workers who are paying the price. The crisis is being socialized and austerity is the order of the day; the crisis is used as a pretext for further savings and cuts. In other words, capital has intensified the class war. But the proletariat has started moving. The revolts i ..."
"In Trump's Counter-Revolution, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen looks behind the craziness of Donald Trump to decipher the formation of a new kind of fascism, late-capitalist fascism, that is intent on preventing any kind of real social change. Trump projects an image of America as threatened, but capable of re-creating itself as a united, white and patriarchal community: "Make America great again". After forty years of extreme, uneven development ..."
"The book has my name on the cover but is, of course, the result of a collective
praxis. I am grateful to a long list of people, most notably James Day, Peer Illner,
Carsten Juhl and Katarina Stenbeck. Chapter 1 A Protest against the Protests
What ..."
After the Great Refusal Essays on Contemporary Art, Its Contradictions and Difficulties by MikkelBoltRasmussen 160 Pages, Published 2018 by John Hunt Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-78535-759-6, ISBN: 1-78535-759-X
"Architecture and Containers: The Hidden World of Logistics and Spectacular
Architecture” in Annie Ring, Henriette Steiner & Kristin Veel (eds.) Architecture
and Control (Leiden: Brill, 2018), pp. 209-227. “Imagining a Future” was first
published ..."
"This is the first ever English-language anthology collecting texts and documents from the still little-known Scandinavian part of the Situationist movement. The book covers over three decades of writing, from Asger Jorn s Luck and Chance published in 1953, to the statements of the Situationist Antinational set up by Jens Jørgen Thorsen and J.V. Martin in 1974. The writings collected gravitate around the year 1962 when the Situationist ..."
"This volume is the first English-language presentation of the Scandinavian Situationists and their role in the Situationist movement."
Cosmonauts of the Future Texts from the Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere by MikkelBoltRasmussen, Jakob Jakobsen Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2015 by Minor Compositions ISBN-13: 978-87-993651-8-0, ISBN: 87-993651-8-9
"This is the first ever English-language anthology collecting texts and documents from the still little-known Scandinavian part of the Situationist movement. The book covers over three decades of writing, from Asger Jorn s Luck and Chance published in 1953, to the statements of the Situationist Antinational set up by Jens Jørgen Thorsen and J.V. Martin in 1974. The writings collected gravitate around the year 1962 when the Situationist ..."
"Hegel after Occupy is a Western Marxist analysis of diff erent attempts to understand the present historical situation and the way theories of postmodernity, globalization, and contemporaneity implicitly or explicitly conceptualize the relationship between the historical present and political action. They all persuasively describe a breakdown of former historical categories but paradoxically end up understanding this breakdown as the en ..."
Playmates and Playboys at a Higher Level(1st Edition) J. V. Martin and the Situationist International by MikkelBoltRasmussen Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2015 by Sternberg Press Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-3-95679-105-5, ISBN: 3-95679-105-3
"Considering these facts the Central Committee of the Situationist International: – proclaims that all followers of Nash, the falsifier, and Elde, his agent, will be considered enemies of the SI. – confers on J. V. Martin the supreme authority to represent the Situationist International in the area covered by the former Scandinavian section (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden) together with the task and the responsibility to reorganize ..."
"The first English publication to focus on Scandinavian Situationists and their role in the Situationist International s attempt to revolutionize the world through rejecting bourgeois art and critiquing the post-World War II capitalist consumer society. While the previous reception of the Situationist movement has almost exclusively focused on the contribution of the French section and in particular on the role of the Guy Debord, this ..."
"In spite of the steadily expanding concept of art in the Western world, art made in twentieth-century totalitarian regimes -- notably nazi Germany, fascist Italy and the communist East Bloc countries -- is still to a surprising degree excluded from main stream art history and the exhibits of art museums. In contrast to earlier art made to promote princely or ecclesiastical power, this kind of visual culture seems to somehow not fulfil t ..."
Apr�s le grand refus Essais sur l'art contemporain, ses probl�mes et ses contradictions by Rasmussen, MikkelBolt Softcover, Published 2019 by Editions L'harmattan ISBN-13: 978-2-343-17836-3, ISBN: 2-343-17836-4
"A critique of work in all its variations, from wage labor to psychoanalysis as a “working through” A notion that increasingly haunts contemporary political theory and practice as we all purposefully or pointlessly work more and more hours, “unworking” overturns the blind valorization of work and action and invites us to think about radical passivity and inactivity as aesthetic and political practices that question the modernist mantra o ..."