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<div class="x_elementToProof"><span style="font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Wednesday March 15, 13:15-15:00</span></div>
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<div class="x_elementToProof"><span style="font-size:18pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Revolution after Hegemony</b></span><br>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:18.6667px; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal"><b>Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, professor of political aesthetics, University of Copenhagen. </b></span><br>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">This talk first introduces Bolt Rasmussen’s recent book
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i>Late Capitalist Fascism</i></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> (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.</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">After 10 years and change the pr</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">otest</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">s 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. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>All are welcome</b></span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Bolt Rasmussens article ”An Affirmation that Is Entirely Other” (</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i>South Atlantic Quarterly</i></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">) is pre-circulated as background.</span></div>
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