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First ever English-language anthology of the Scandinavian
Situationists<br>
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<b>Cosmonauts of the Future: Texts from the Situationist Movement in
Scandinavia and Elsewhere</b><br>
Edited by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen & Jakob Jakobsen<br>
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This is the first ever English-language anthology collecting texts
and documents from the still little-known Scandinavian part of the
Situationist movement. The book covers over three decades of
writing, from Asger Jorn’s Luck and Chance published in 1953, to the
statements of the Situationist Antinational set up by Jens Jørgen
Thorsen and J.V. Martin in 1974. The writings collected gravitate
around the year 1962 when the Situationist movement went through
it’s most dynamic and critical moments, and the disagreements about
the relationship between art and politics came to a culmination,
resulting in exclusions and the split of the Situationist
International.<br>
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The Situationists did not win, and the almost forgotten Scandinavian
fractions even less so. The book broadens the understanding of the
Situationist movement by bringing into view the wild and unruly
activities of the Scandinavian fractions of the organisation and the
more artistic, experimental, and actionist attitude that
characterised them. They did, nevertheless, constitute a decisive
break with the ruling socio-economic order through their project of
bringing into being new forms of life. Only an analysis of the
multifaceted and often contradictory Situationist revolution will
allow us to break away from the dull contemplation of yet another
document of Debord’s archive or yet another drawing by Jorn. There
is a lot to be learned from the history of revolutionary failure. It
is along these lines that this book points forward beyond the
crisis-ridden capitalist order that survives today.<br>
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Texts by: Asger Jorn, Jørgen Nash, Jens Jørgen Thorsen, Bauhaus
Situationniste, Jacqueline de Jong, Gordon Fazakerley, Gruppe SPUR,
Dieter Kunzelman, J.V. Martin, and Guy Debord.<br>
Translated by: Peter Shield, James Manley, Anja Buchele, Matthew
Hyland, Fabian Tompsett, and Jakob Jakobsen.<br>
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Bio: Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen is an art historian and political
theorist. He is associate professor at the University of Copenhagen
and has published books and articles on the revolutionary tradition
and modern art. Jakob Jakobsen is an artist and political organizer.
He ran the Copenhagen Free University, cofounded the artist run TV
station tvtv and has participated in exhibitions all over the world.<br>
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PDF available freely online:
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