Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen (1973) is an art historian and political theorist. He is Professor in Political Aesthetics at the University of Copenhagen and has published books and articles on the revolutionary tradition and modern art.

Publications

• Situationistisk Danmarkskort. Noter om Situationistisk Internationale i Danmark, Copenhagen: Copenhagen Free University, 2003, 35 pp. (Danish)
  • Situationist Map of Denmark: Notes on the Situationist International in Denmark, Copenhagen: Copenhagen Free University, 2004, 35 pp. (English)

• Den sidste avantgarde. Situationistisk Internationale hinsides kunst og politik, Copenhagen: Politisk Revy, 2004. (Danish)

• editor, with Jacob Lund Pedersen, Livsform. Perspektiver i Giorgio Agambens filosofi, Aarhus: Klim, 2005. (Danish)

• editor, with Karin Hindsbo, City Rumble. Kunst, intervention og kritisk offentlighed, Copenhagen: Politisk revy, 2005. (Danish)

• with Das Beckwerk, I sammenbruddets tjeneste. Samtaler ved Peder Holm-Pedersen, Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 2008. (Danish)

• Avantgardens selvmord, Copenhagen: 28/6, 2009, 109 pp; repr., new forew., Copenhagen: Antipyrine, 2013, 108 pp. [1] (Danish)

• editor, with Jacob Lund, Fællesskabsfølelser, Aarhus: Klim, 2009. (Danish)

• editor, with Jacob Wamberg, Totalitarian Art and Modernity, Aarhus University Press, 2010, 359 pp. (English)

• editor, with Jakob Jakobsen and Morten Visby, Billed Politik. At se er at dræbe, Copenhagen, 2010, 112 pp. [2] (Danish)

• En anden verden. Små kritiske epistler om de seneste årtiers antikapitalistiske satsninger i kunst og politik og forsøgene på at udradere dem, Copenhagen: Nebula, 2011, 264 pp. [3] (Danish)

• Om billedregimer, statsapparater og deres mulige kollaps, Oslo: Attåt, 2011. [4]

• "Scattered (Western Marxist Style) Remarks on Contemporary Art and its Difficulties", Third Text 25:2, 2011, pp 199-210. (English)

• Bolt, et al., Bevidsthedsudvidelse og verdensomlægning. Kunsten som revolutionens selvkritik, Copenhagen: Nebula, 2012, 204 pp. [5] (Danish)

• editor, with Jakob Jakobsen, Expect Anything Fear Nothing: The Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere, Copenhagen: Nebula, and New York: Autonomedia, 2011, 288 pp. (English)

• Krise til opstand. Noter om det igangværende sammenbrud, Aarhus: Antipyrine, 2013. [6] (Danish)

• editor, with Jacob Lund, The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics 44-45: Aesthetics and Politics, Stockholm: Thales, 2013. (English)

• co-editor, Monsieur Antipyrine, 2+ issues, Aarhus: Antipyrine, since 2014. [7] [8] (Danish)

• "The Self-Destruction of the Avant Garde", in The Idea of the Avant Garde and What it Means Today, ed. Marc James Léger, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014.

• "Here and Elsewhere", Open!, Sep 2014. (English)

• Crisis to Insurrection: Notes on the Ongoing Collapse, Brooklyn, NY: Minor Compositions, 2015, 164 pp. [9] (English)

• Playmates and Playboys at a Higher Level: J.V. Martin and the Situationist International, Berlin: Sternberg, and Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 2015, 64 pp. [10] (English)

• editor, with Jakob Jakobsen, Cosmonauts of the Future: Texts from the Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere, Copenhagen: Nebula, and New York: Autonomedia, 2015, 304 pp. (English)

• editor, with Jacob Lund, The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics 49-50: "Art, Remembrance and History", Stockholm: Thales, 2015, 188 pp. (English)

• Samtidskunstens metamorfose, Aarhus: Antipyrine, 2016, 248 pp. [11] (Danish)

• co-editor, Gæstfrihed i kunst og politik. Festskrift til Carsten Juhl, Copenhagen: Basilisk, 2016, 264 pp. [12] (Danish)

• "A Note on Socially Engaged Art Criticism", FIELD: A Journal of Socially-Engaged Art Criticism 6, Winter 2017; repr., The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics 25:53, Jun 2017. Kester's response. (English)

• Hegel after Occupy, Berlin: Sternberg, and Aarhus: Aarhus University and ARoS Art Museum, 2018, 64 pp. [13] (English)
  • Hegel après Occupy, trans. Philippe Blouin, Quimperlé: Divergences, 2020, 82 pp. Publisher. (French)

• After the Great Refusal: Essays on Contemporary Art, its Contradictions and Difficulties, Winchester: Zero Books, 2018, 114 pp. Publisher. (English)
  • Après le grand refus: essais sur l'art contemporain, ses problèmes et ses contradictions, trans. José Chatroussat, L'Harmattan, 2019. Publisher. (French)
  • Dopo il grande rifiuto: l'arte contemporanea sull’orlo della catastrofe, trans. Marcello Tarì, Milan: Agenzia X, 2021, 152 pp. Publisher. (Italian)

• Trump's Counter-Revolution, Winchester: Zero Books, 2018, 78 pp. [14] (English)
  • La contre-révolution de Trump, trans. Philippe Blouin, Quimperlé: Divergences, 2019, 167 pp. Publisher. (French)
  • La contro-rivoluzione di Trump. Fascismo e democrazia, trans. Marcello Tarí, Milan: Agenzia X, 2019, 152 pp. Publisher. (Italian)

• "Postfascism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism", Third Text 32:5-6, 2018, pp 682-688. (English)

• with Dominique Routhier, "Critical Theory as Radical Crisis Theory: Kurz, Krisis and Exit! on Value Theory, the Crisis, and the Breakdown of Capitalism", Rethinking Marxism 31:2, 2019, pp 173-193. (English)

• På råbeafstand af marxismen, Aarhus: Antipyrine, 2019, 272 pp. Publisher. (Danish)

• editor, with Jakob Jakobsen, Den ny fascisme, Copenhagen: Nebula, 2020, 172 pp. [15] (Danish)

• Late Capitalist Fascism, London: Polity, 2021, 140 pp. Publisher. (English)

• editor, Aesthetic Protest Cultures: After the Avant-Garde, Minor Compositions, 2024, 218 pp, PDF. (English)

• Afvisningens bevægelse, Copenhagen: Antipyrine, 2024, 104 pp. Publisher. (Danish)

• more

Interview

• Jacob Lillemose, "An Art Historian with a Cause: Mikkel Bolt", Kunstkritikk, 18 Dec 2013. (English)/(Danish)

See also

• Situationist International

Links

• Profile on U Copenhagen, [16]
• Academia.edu
• Wikipedia (Danish)