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Mikkel Krause Frantzen

@mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social

Assoc. Prof. at UCPH, literary critic at Politiken, author of Going Nowhere, Slow & Klodens fald & Slutspil & (soon) The Birth of the Financial Thriller & (later, at one point) The Climate Endgame Mail: mikkelfrantzen@hum.ku.dk

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80 years since Hiroshimaβ€”time to reread Anders’ Theses for the Atomic Age, Hiroshima ist Überall, and Die atomare Drohubg

www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK...

06.08.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Where Do Berlin’s Club Kids Go When They Grow Up? La Maison for a Croissant.

Does this mean I was one of the club kids now?
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/d...

29.07.2025 11:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œOlsen-bandens sidste bedrifter” er et mestervΓ¦rk!

28.07.2025 10:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Birth of the Financial Thriller The Birth of the Financial Thriller

Partly based on: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-bir...

28.07.2025 10:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Vi lever alle sammen i en finansthriller Mens danskerne morede sig over Olsen-bandens kapitalismekritik, fik en canadisk bankmand succes med verdens fΓΈrste finansthriller, som han skrev, mens han sad fΓ¦ngslet for bedrageri. BΓ₯de film og bog ...

Finally got a chance to write about Olsen Banden - & the financial thriller & the 1970s & Nixon & also 2025 & Trump & crypto & the tv Netflix show Reservatet etc etc etc - all stuffed into one essay in Politiken: politiken.dk/kultur/art10...

28.07.2025 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

lets go!

23.07.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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oh boy

23.07.2025 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Screenshot of a tweet by the LLM Grok claiming to have compiled a list of β€œwell-known communists”, which includes, among others, the Danish Society for Marxist Studies’s twitter handle.

Screenshot of a tweet by the LLM Grok claiming to have compiled a list of β€œwell-known communists”, which includes, among others, the Danish Society for Marxist Studies’s twitter handle.

Officially β€œwell-known communists” according to apartheid boy’s racism machine πŸ™

19.07.2025 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Here we have Tom, Quinn, Emma and me - and a TV crew!

15.07.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It was an overwhelming Berlin book launch for Finance Aesthetics last week at the great great great @proqm.bsky.social

15.07.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Tonight in Berlin!

10.07.2025 06:34 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Finance Aesthetics. A Critical Glossary | Pro qm

This is happening in Berlin this week: pro-qm.de/event/financ...

Berlin book launch for Finance Aesthetics (@goldsmithspress.bsky.social)

Thursday, July 10, 7.30 pm, at @proqm.bsky.social

I can't believe that Tom McCarthy AND Quinn Slobodian are part of the line-up!

Come say hi and buy the book

07.07.2025 09:50 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Aaron Benanav, Beyond Capitalismβ€”1, NLR 153, May–June 2025 In the first instalment of a major contribution to the reconceptualization of a post-capitalist social order, Aaron Benanav marshals insights from a long century of socialist thought and practiceβ€”Cabe...

β€œSocialism has sometimes been framed as the pursuit of free time, of environmental balance, of foregrounded social care; but it could pursue all those goalsβ€”and more." newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...

03.07.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Den dag i dag er jeg glad for denne TedTalk

03.07.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Art and Abolition: A Proposal - Journal #155 Dominique Routhier on β€œart” as a fictional bourgeois category that arises from capitalist relations of production.

"Against vexingly persistent elitist and transhistorical conceptions of art as existing outside the material conditions of its production, Routhier offers a 'categorical' critique of art."

- I have a new essay out, read it here:

www.e-flux.com/journal/155/...

24.06.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5
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Out today: Freedom for Capital not People: The Mont Pèlerin Society and the Origins of the Neoliberal Monetary Order @versobooks.bsky.social

24.06.2025 07:20 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Berliners!

Berlin book launch for "Finance Aesthetics - A Critical Glossary"!

July 10, 7.30 pm at Pro qm - with Quinn Slobodian, Tom McCarthy, Emma Sofie Brogaard and me!

Come say hi!

@proqm.bsky.social
@goldsmithspress.bsky.social

18.06.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Tonight I will write my review for Politiken of the Danish translation of Ocean Vuong's "The Emperor of Gladness" and I cant believe that The Guardian wrote that it is an unsentimental novel, to me it reads as a very un-unsentimental novel, does anyone agree?

16.06.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes!

16.06.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah!

16.06.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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how is this real life
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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That’s what you meant & yes!

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when? or, are you making a general prophesy?

12.06.2025 08:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I had never read it before!

12.06.2025 08:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bank of England staff depart after downgrade of climate risk Ex-employees tell FT that climate change was deprioritised under governor Andrew Bailey

β€œThere are many things that are catastrophic for humanity without being catastrophic for finance" - indeed
(www.ft.com/content/c991...)

11.06.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"What we learn is the choreography of credit: you can’t walk to class without being offered another piece of plastic charging 20 percent interest. Yesterday’s finance majors buy their summer homes with the bleak futures of today’s humanities majors."

11.06.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"We work and we borrow in order to work and to borrow"

11.06.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Communique from an Absent Future: The Terminus of Student Life Research and Destroy Communique from an Absent Future: The Terminus of Student Life 2009

"No one knows what the university is for anymore."

11.06.2025 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Communique from an Absent Future: The Terminus of Student Life Research and Destroy Communique from an Absent Future: The Terminus of Student Life 2009

"Like the society to which it has played the faithful servant, the university is bankrupt. This bankruptcy is not only financial. It is the index of a more fundamental insolvency, one both political and economic, which has been a long time in the making." theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rese...

11.06.2025 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

2025 is here

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