REMESO Open Seminar, March 15, Professor Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, REVOLUTION AFTER HEGEMONY

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Welcome to a REMESO seminar

Wednesday March 15, 13:15-15:00
Room: KO23, Kopparhammaren 2, Campus Norrköping


Revolution after Hegemony

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, professor of political aesthetics, University of Copenhagen.

This talk first introduces Bolt Rasmussen’s recent book Late Capitalist Fascism (Polity 2021) and goes on to discuss strategies of resistance. After a 30-year long period of one-sided neoliberal counter-revolution, the last ten years have been characterized by the return of universal disgust against the political status quo. Social movements, assemblies, occupations, multitudes, uprisings, riots, and revolts have moved discontinuously across a world united in distrust or outright hatred toward a corrupt political class. Millions of people have taken to the streets, occupying squares, or rioting to protest the austerity and corruption of local political regimes.

After 10 years and change the protests remain unable to articulate a new ‘political’ project. The presentation will contribute to the ongoing analysis of the new cycle of protests and the specificity of its abandonment of power.

All are welcome
Bolt Rasmussens article ”An Affirmation that Is Entirely Other” (South Atlantic Quarterly) is pre-circulated as background.


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