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New book from Mikkel Bolt on ongoing crises and insurrections…<br>
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<b>Crisis to Insurrection. Notes on the ongoing collapse</b><br>
Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen<br>
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The crisis runs deep. The economies of the US and Europe are in
profound crisis and the developing economies are also beginning to
feel its effects. Everywhere it is workers who are paying the price.
The crisis is being socialized and austerity is the order of the
day; the crisis is used as a pretext for further savings and cuts.
In other words, capital has intensified the class war. But the
proletariat has started moving. The revolts in North Africa and the
Middle East have challenged the neoliberal world order and its
division of the world, and the ‘movement of the squares’ in Southern
Europe and Occupy in the US have picked up the baton and joined the
new protest cycle. Even though dictators have been toppled in
Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, the protests continue. This is also the
case in Greece, Spain and Portugal where people reject the austerity
programs. There are protests in Bulgaria and Bosnia. In Syria the
civil war is raging. In China the number of strikes continue to
rise. In Turkey the youth reject Erdogan’s neoliberal ‘success’ and
urban restructuring and in Brazil ‘the dangerous classes’ have taken
to the streets. There are a variety of protests going on – the ones
in the West are defensive, the ones in the rest of the world
offensive and reformist – but together they are knocking a hole in
the neoliberal world order. The old mole is back.<br>
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Bio: Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen is Associate Professor at the Department
of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.<br>
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PDF available freely online:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=678">http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=678</a><br>
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Released by Minor Compositions, Wivenhoe / Brooklyn / Port Watson<br>
Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations
drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the
revolutions of everyday life.<br>
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Minor Compositions is an imprint of Autonomedia<br>
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Minor Compositions is a series of interventions
& provocations drawing from autonomous politics,
avant-garde aesthetics, and the
revolutions of everyday life.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.minorcompositions.info">http://www.minorcompositions.info</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/minorcomps">https://twitter.com/minorcomps</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/255105881183214/">http://www.facebook.com/groups/255105881183214/</a></pre>
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