Mikkel Bolt
Biographic Data
| ID | 4003147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mikkel Bolt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mikkel |
| FAMILY NAME | Bolt |
| SIGNATURE | BOLT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2105-7092 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Efter det kritiske subjekt
The article revisits the question of the critical subject through a reading of Jacques Rancière and Fred Moten. It starts out by giving an account of a longer historical trajectory where the notions of critique and revolution have run into the ground. David Scott’s nuanced analysis of the shift from an anticolonial romantic revolutionary perspective to a tragic postcolonial stance is both affirmed and challenged. Affirmed in so far as Scott’s ana…
Det kritiske subjekt
Udgangspunktet for Det kritiske subjekt er spørgsmålet om den kritiske kulturanalyse efter mere end 50 års intens kritik af forestillingen om det subjekt, der udfører denne kritik. Hvor kulturteoretikeren tidligere syntes at kunne diagnosticere samfundet og kulturen fra en sikker kritisk position, har den kritiske opmærksomhed i stedet længe været rettet mod kulturteoretikerens blinde vinkler og skråsikre positionering. Nærværende temanummer bely…
Teorihistorisk skitsering af den nye protestcyklus
The article proposes a reading of the new cycle of protests that erupted in 2011 with the so-called Arab Spring and the square occupation movements in Souther Europe before moving on to the US with the Occupy movement. The years since 2011 have been marked by a significant rise in the numer of protests, riots and revolts across the world with the years 2011, 2014 and 2019 as preliminary high points. The pandemic and the repressive anti-rebellion …
Protestens billeder
Prefatory article that introduces the themes, topics and articles of this special issue on the images of protest
An Affirmation That Is Entirely Other
The aim of this article is to juxtapose the notion of refusal in Maurice Blanchot, Herbert Marcuse, and the Invisible Committee. The article opens by considering Blanchot's 1958 notion of a radical refusal and then turns to Marcuse's idea of a "great refusal" against one-dimensional society. It then concludes with a consideration of the Invisible Committee's theory of destitution, which aims to rethink revolution in light of an analysis of the co…
Stormen på Kongressen
On 6 January 2021 far-right protesters stormed the Capitol in Washington DC, seat of the US Congress. The protesters were a mixed bag, some wore bulletproof vests, helmets and rifles, other came clad in Braveheart clothes, some were waving Confederate flags, some explicitly fascist ones. Once inside the building many protesters walked around taking selfies and stealing stuff from the offices of the Congress members who were hiding in the basement…
Kritisk teori uden krise
Anmeldelse af Henrik Kaare Nielsen: I affekt. Studier i senmoderne politik og kultur, Aarhus Universitetsforlag, Aarhus, 2021
The Aestheticisation of Late Capitalist Fascism
Picking up Walter Benjamin’s analysis of German Fascism as an aestheticisation of politics, the article develops the concept of late capitalist fascism for which aesthetics plays an important role. Today fascism is not primarily a political force but a cultural phenomenon that circulates as language, emblems and objects. Because of its history fascism does not dare name itself as such but fascism is fast becoming part of everyday life in a number…
Critical Theory as Radical Crisis Theory
The essay introduces the work of Robert Kurz and the somewhat marginalized species of value critique that he is associated with: Wertkritik. On the basis of a critical historiographical account of the “New Marx Reading,” it argues that the theoretical and political differences between Wertkritik and other value-critical currents cannot be glossed over or dismissed as mere territorial strife but must instead be understood as an expression of a mor…
Postfascismen, eller den sene kapitalismes kulturelle logik
Postfascism is very much a cultural phenomenon. And the conflicts of today occur less as class struggle than as cultural battles. Why is that? I propose to use Fred Jameson's classic text on postmodernism (as the cultural logic of late capitalism) as a framework for considering the new postfascist tendencies that have emerged during the last few years in USA and Europe (Trump, Brexit, Alternative for Germany, Pegida, Le Pen, Wilders' Party for Fr…
Postfascism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Postfascism is very much a cultural phenomenon. And the conflicts of today occur less as class struggle than as cultural battles. Why is that? I propose to use Fredric Jameson’s classic text on postmodernism (as the cultural logic of late capitalism) as a framework for considering the new postfascist tendencies that have emerged during the last few years in the USA and Europe (Trump, Brexit, Alternative for Germany, Pegida, Le Pen, Wilders’s Part…
Kritikkens fortsættelse - Interview med Sianne Ngai
Oversat af Christine Strandmose Toft
Kulturkritik nu
The spectacle of de Gaulle’s coup d’état
This article analyses the Situationists’ reading of the situation in May–June 1958 when Charles de Gaulle came to power in France in the middle of the Algerian civil war, which threatened to tear France apart. The Situationists analysed the dramatic events as a counter-revolution not unlike previous historical events where counter-revolutionary figures like Louis Bonaparte and Franco derailed potentially revolutionary developments. In that regard…
Grænser for deltagelse
Through a focus on the discourse of participation and the rhetoric of New Institutionalism the article presents an analysis of the on-going transformation taking place within the art institution following the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2007-2008 where so-called progressive art institutions are exposing former hidden class alliances. One case in point being the exhibition “Abstract Possible” at Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm where Tensta K…
Yes Of Course, But … Derrida To Genet On Commitment In Favour Of Jackson
'With the best intentions in the world, with the most sincere moral indignation in the face of what, in effect, remains unbearable and inadmissible, one could then lock up again that which one says one wants to liberate'. (1) It's Derrida. He is writing a letter to Jean Genet. The letter is dated August 20 1971. (2) At that time Genet was busy mobilising the French intellectual milieu in defence of George Jackson, the 28-year-old African-American…
Art, Revolution and Communisation
This article argues that modern art has always had a complex relationship to the idea of revolution, at the same time embodying and articulating a critique of modern capitalist society as well as consolidating the same society. From Romanticism onwards art has sought to transgress the discursive and institutional limits of the art institution and to transcend the separation of art and everyday life. Today much of what goes by the name of contempo…
Remarques éparses (en style marxiste occidental) sur l'art contemporain, ses problèmes et ses contradictions
style marxiste occidental) sur l'art contemporain, ses problmes et ses contradictions
Scattered (Western Marxist‐Style) Remarks about Contemporary Art, Its Contradictions and Difficulties
With a point of departure in Western Marxism’s idea of art’s ability to contribute to radical social transformation this article analyses the relationship between the current neoliberal hegemony and contemporary art, especially relational aesthetics and interventionist art, in the guise of a more solution‐orientated approach and the tactical media approach. Although the artistic practices associated with these designations contain interesting cap…
Kontrolsamfund Og Kanonbådsdiplomati - Et Forsøg På at Adressere Spørgsmålet Om Kombinationen Af Decentrale Netværk Og Suverænitet Efter 9/11 Med Udgangspunkt I Deleuzes “Postscriptum Om Kontrolsamfun…
CONTROL SOCIETY AND GUN BOAT DIPLOMACYAn attempt to address the question of the relationship between decentred networks and sovereignty after 9/11 starting from Deleuze’s “Postscript on the Societies of Control”.In 1990 Gilles Deleuze published his short text “Postscript on the Societies of Control” in which he presented an almost intuitive analysis of contemporary capitalist society explaining how we were going from the separate spheres of disci…
L'art interventionniste entre réforme et révolution
Au cours de la dernière décennie nous avons observé différentes tentatives pour utiliser l’art comme d’une plate-forme afin de discuter des problèmes politiques et sociaux. Tandis que des mouvements populistes nationaux ont laissé leur empreinte dans plusieurs nations en Europe et après la soi-disant « guerre contre le terrorisme », nous avons assisté à différentes tentatives artistiques pour interpeller l’actuel développement historique. Celui-c…
Den uundgåelige opløsning af afsavnets verden
The Inevitable Liquidation of the World of Privation: The Situationists as Manifesto Writers:The article presents a reading of the short, four-page manifesto written in 1960 by the Situationist International and published in the fourth issue of the situationist journal Internationale situationniste. Through an analysis of both the text and the glossy cover of the issue it is argued that the situationists sought to subvert the spectacle while comi…
Note sur le militantisme de l'après-mars 2007 à Copenhague
Cet article de Rasmussen aborde la manière dont la Maison de jeunes a été violemment évacuée par les forces de l'ordre le 1 e mars 2007. Ce faisant, l'auteur ouvre également la réflexion sur la question des intentions et de la dynamique des partis au pouvoir au Danemark. Il nous révèle ainsi le projet d'une droite, sans complexe et offensive, qui pactise avec l'extrème-droite, et cherche par tous les moyens à éradiquer les traditions progressiste…
Nazismens kamp mod forfaldskunsten
Nazism’s Fight against the Art of Decay:The article presents a reading of the exhibition »Entartete Kunst« that took place in Munich in 1937. The exhibition was staged by the Nazi regime as an attempt to prove the dangerous nature of modern art. According to Nazi ideology, modern art was not just a reflection of unhealthy interests or degenerate racial mixings but was in itself a threat to the purity of the soul of the German people. Therefore mo…
The Politics of Interventionist Art
This essay offers an analysis of three art projects from the 1960s—the Situationist International, Artist Placement Group, and CitationArt Workers’ Coalition—that all tried to mobilize avant-garde art as a political tool to address social issues and bring about social transformation. The Situationists tried to leave behind the art world and turned toward ultraleft politics. Artist Placement Group sought to use the creativity of art in contexts ou…
Postfascism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Postfascism is very much a cultural phenomenon. And the conflicts of today occur less as class struggle than as cultural battles. Why is that? I propose to use Fredric Jameson’s classic text on postmodernism (as the cultural logic of late capitalism) as a framework for considering the new postfascist tendencies that have emerged during the last few years in the USA and Europe (Trump, Brexit, Alternative for Germany, Pegida, Le Pen, Wilders’s Part…
An Affirmation That Is Entirely Other
The aim of this article is to juxtapose the notion of refusal in Maurice Blanchot, Herbert Marcuse, and the Invisible Committee. The article opens by considering Blanchot's 1958 notion of a radical refusal and then turns to Marcuse's idea of a "great refusal" against one-dimensional society. It then concludes with a consideration of the Invisible Committee's theory of destitution, which aims to rethink revolution in light of an analysis of the co…
The spectacle of de Gaulle’s coup d’état
This article analyses the Situationists’ reading of the situation in May–June 1958 when Charles de Gaulle came to power in France in the middle of the Algerian civil war, which threatened to tear France apart. The Situationists analysed the dramatic events as a counter-revolution not unlike previous historical events where counter-revolutionary figures like Louis Bonaparte and Franco derailed potentially revolutionary developments. In that regard…
Art, Revolution and Communisation
This article argues that modern art has always had a complex relationship to the idea of revolution, at the same time embodying and articulating a critique of modern capitalist society as well as consolidating the same society. From Romanticism onwards art has sought to transgress the discursive and institutional limits of the art institution and to transcend the separation of art and everyday life. Today much of what goes by the name of contempo…
Scattered (Western Marxist‐Style) Remarks about Contemporary Art, Its Contradictions and Difficulties
With a point of departure in Western Marxism’s idea of art’s ability to contribute to radical social transformation this article analyses the relationship between the current neoliberal hegemony and contemporary art, especially relational aesthetics and interventionist art, in the guise of a more solution‐orientated approach and the tactical media approach. Although the artistic practices associated with these designations contain interesting cap…
The Politics of Interventionist Art
This essay offers an analysis of three art projects from the 1960s—the Situationist International, Artist Placement Group, and CitationArt Workers’ Coalition—that all tried to mobilize avant-garde art as a political tool to address social issues and bring about social transformation. The Situationists tried to leave behind the art world and turned toward ultraleft politics. Artist Placement Group sought to use the creativity of art in contexts ou…
Art and Politics after September 11
KunstnerFørerens æstetiske visioner og nazismens totale kunst
KunstnerFørerens æstetiske visioner og nazismens totale kunst
Art and Politics after September 11
Netværk eller blændværk—Empire som kommunistisk teori eller kybernetisk ideologi
Michael Hardt og Antonio Negris Empire er blevet modtaget som en kommunistisk kritik af den nuværende kapitalistiske orden. Artiklen argumenterer med udgangspunkti Agamben, Debord og Marcuse for, at Empire snarere er et eksempel på, hvorledes den kybernetiske ideologi har kontamineret den avancerede marxisme med forestillinger om enhed, styring og inklusion. Empire forbliver i sin betoning af multitudens holistiske immanensstrukrur og forestillin…
Det kan kun blive værre. Markedsfundamentalismens onde ånder
John Gray: Al Qaeda og hvad det vil sige at være moderne, oversat af Frank Beck Lassen, Århus, 2006 (Slagmarks Skyttegravsserie)
Støj eller stemmer
Om de lavere klassers intelligens hos Jacques Rancière Noises or voices: The Intelligence of the Lower Classes in Jacques RancièreThe article examines the work of the French philosopher Jacques Rancière, that manifests itself as a series of engagements with philosophers from Plato to Louis Althusser via Karl Marx. According to Rancière these philoosphers all in different ways reject the lower classes’ ability to act as political subjects and unde…
Nazismens kamp mod forfaldskunsten
Nazism’s Fight against the Art of Decay:The article presents a reading of the exhibition »Entartete Kunst« that took place in Munich in 1937. The exhibition was staged by the Nazi regime as an attempt to prove the dangerous nature of modern art. According to Nazi ideology, modern art was not just a reflection of unhealthy interests or degenerate racial mixings but was in itself a threat to the purity of the soul of the German people. Therefore mo…
The Politics of Interventionist Art
This essay offers an analysis of three art projects from the 1960s—the Situationist International, Artist Placement Group, and CitationArt Workers’ Coalition—that all tried to mobilize avant-garde art as a political tool to address social issues and bring about social transformation. The Situationists tried to leave behind the art world and turned toward ultraleft politics. Artist Placement Group sought to use the creativity of art in contexts ou…
Den uundgåelige opløsning af afsavnets verden
The Inevitable Liquidation of the World of Privation: The Situationists as Manifesto Writers:The article presents a reading of the short, four-page manifesto written in 1960 by the Situationist International and published in the fourth issue of the situationist journal Internationale situationniste. Through an analysis of both the text and the glossy cover of the issue it is argued that the situationists sought to subvert the spectacle while comi…
Note sur le militantisme de l'après-mars 2007 à Copenhague
Cet article de Rasmussen aborde la manière dont la Maison de jeunes a été violemment évacuée par les forces de l'ordre le 1 e mars 2007. Ce faisant, l'auteur ouvre également la réflexion sur la question des intentions et de la dynamique des partis au pouvoir au Danemark. Il nous révèle ainsi le projet d'une droite, sans complexe et offensive, qui pactise avec l'extrème-droite, et cherche par tous les moyens à éradiquer les traditions progressiste…
Kontrolsamfund Og Kanonbådsdiplomati - Et Forsøg På at Adressere Spørgsmålet Om Kombinationen Af Decentrale Netværk Og Suverænitet Efter 9/11 Med Udgangspunkt I Deleuzes “Postscriptum Om Kontrolsamfun…
CONTROL SOCIETY AND GUN BOAT DIPLOMACYAn attempt to address the question of the relationship between decentred networks and sovereignty after 9/11 starting from Deleuze’s “Postscript on the Societies of Control”.In 1990 Gilles Deleuze published his short text “Postscript on the Societies of Control” in which he presented an almost intuitive analysis of contemporary capitalist society explaining how we were going from the separate spheres of disci…
L'art interventionniste entre réforme et révolution
Au cours de la dernière décennie nous avons observé différentes tentatives pour utiliser l’art comme d’une plate-forme afin de discuter des problèmes politiques et sociaux. Tandis que des mouvements populistes nationaux ont laissé leur empreinte dans plusieurs nations en Europe et après la soi-disant « guerre contre le terrorisme », nous avons assisté à différentes tentatives artistiques pour interpeller l’actuel développement historique. Celui-c…
Scattered (Western Marxist‐Style) Remarks about Contemporary Art, Its Contradictions and Difficulties
With a point of departure in Western Marxism’s idea of art’s ability to contribute to radical social transformation this article analyses the relationship between the current neoliberal hegemony and contemporary art, especially relational aesthetics and interventionist art, in the guise of a more solution‐orientated approach and the tactical media approach. Although the artistic practices associated with these designations contain interesting cap…
Yes Of Course, But … Derrida To Genet On Commitment In Favour Of Jackson
'With the best intentions in the world, with the most sincere moral indignation in the face of what, in effect, remains unbearable and inadmissible, one could then lock up again that which one says one wants to liberate'. (1) It's Derrida. He is writing a letter to Jean Genet. The letter is dated August 20 1971. (2) At that time Genet was busy mobilising the French intellectual milieu in defence of George Jackson, the 28-year-old African-American…
Art, Revolution and Communisation
This article argues that modern art has always had a complex relationship to the idea of revolution, at the same time embodying and articulating a critique of modern capitalist society as well as consolidating the same society. From Romanticism onwards art has sought to transgress the discursive and institutional limits of the art institution and to transcend the separation of art and everyday life. Today much of what goes by the name of contempo…
Remarques éparses (en style marxiste occidental) sur l'art contemporain, ses problèmes et ses contradictions
style marxiste occidental) sur l'art contemporain, ses problmes et ses contradictions
Grænser for deltagelse
Through a focus on the discourse of participation and the rhetoric of New Institutionalism the article presents an analysis of the on-going transformation taking place within the art institution following the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2007-2008 where so-called progressive art institutions are exposing former hidden class alliances. One case in point being the exhibition “Abstract Possible” at Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm where Tensta K…
Kritikkens fortsættelse - Interview med Sianne Ngai
Oversat af Christine Strandmose Toft
Kulturkritik nu
The spectacle of de Gaulle’s coup d’état
This article analyses the Situationists’ reading of the situation in May–June 1958 when Charles de Gaulle came to power in France in the middle of the Algerian civil war, which threatened to tear France apart. The Situationists analysed the dramatic events as a counter-revolution not unlike previous historical events where counter-revolutionary figures like Louis Bonaparte and Franco derailed potentially revolutionary developments. In that regard…
Postfascismen, eller den sene kapitalismes kulturelle logik
Postfascism is very much a cultural phenomenon. And the conflicts of today occur less as class struggle than as cultural battles. Why is that? I propose to use Fred Jameson's classic text on postmodernism (as the cultural logic of late capitalism) as a framework for considering the new postfascist tendencies that have emerged during the last few years in USA and Europe (Trump, Brexit, Alternative for Germany, Pegida, Le Pen, Wilders' Party for Fr…
Postfascism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Postfascism is very much a cultural phenomenon. And the conflicts of today occur less as class struggle than as cultural battles. Why is that? I propose to use Fredric Jameson’s classic text on postmodernism (as the cultural logic of late capitalism) as a framework for considering the new postfascist tendencies that have emerged during the last few years in the USA and Europe (Trump, Brexit, Alternative for Germany, Pegida, Le Pen, Wilders’s Part…
Critical Theory as Radical Crisis Theory
The essay introduces the work of Robert Kurz and the somewhat marginalized species of value critique that he is associated with: Wertkritik. On the basis of a critical historiographical account of the “New Marx Reading,” it argues that the theoretical and political differences between Wertkritik and other value-critical currents cannot be glossed over or dismissed as mere territorial strife but must instead be understood as an expression of a mor…
Kritisk teori uden krise
Anmeldelse af Henrik Kaare Nielsen: I affekt. Studier i senmoderne politik og kultur, Aarhus Universitetsforlag, Aarhus, 2021
The Aestheticisation of Late Capitalist Fascism
Picking up Walter Benjamin’s analysis of German Fascism as an aestheticisation of politics, the article develops the concept of late capitalist fascism for which aesthetics plays an important role. Today fascism is not primarily a political force but a cultural phenomenon that circulates as language, emblems and objects. Because of its history fascism does not dare name itself as such but fascism is fast becoming part of everyday life in a number…
Stormen på Kongressen
On 6 January 2021 far-right protesters stormed the Capitol in Washington DC, seat of the US Congress. The protesters were a mixed bag, some wore bulletproof vests, helmets and rifles, other came clad in Braveheart clothes, some were waving Confederate flags, some explicitly fascist ones. Once inside the building many protesters walked around taking selfies and stealing stuff from the offices of the Congress members who were hiding in the basement…
Political science (19 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Art (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Art history (6 works)