While searching for new openings I've made personal webpage to collect past work and future ideas. So, if you need someone to talk/write about poetry/literature on/within borders, utopias and crisis, check Mikkelnj.org and reach out. Most of it is in Danish, but i'd be happy to translate if needed.

Wrote something in Danish about right-wing (including the Social Democratic party) obsession with so-called "criminal foreigners" during the general election. The text is entitled: The Criminal Foreigner - The Election of Categorial Fetishists"

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Call for artistic contributions to an anthology on forms of collective research in the arts. Reach out if you have an artistic practice (solo or collective) and an interest in thinking with us on how collective organization can counter neo-liberal knowledge production. English contributions welcome.

Back when the media cared about precision..

These are my children's freshly baked pizzas from their pizzeria called Il Marxos. Online ordering is open.

While listening to the first episode of this new great podcast series on tradwife culture, my algorithm served me a newspaper op-ed by a politician running for city council calling for the closure of Gender Museum Denmark due to wokeness and erasure of cultural heritage. Antidote to election season.

"Welcome to your first German class in high school - now repeat after me":

Great times, talks and people as always at @dkmarxsoc.bsky.socials conference this weekend!

It was a pleasure reviewing @tuenex.bsky.social new book and reflect on why utopian literature is necessary right now.

@brosef-stalin.bsky.social implicating Denmark at @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social . Great talk.

Day two of the conference is underway with great panels on transformative futures and on critical aesthetics 🤩

BREAKING NEWS 📕🚨 We are happy and proud to announce the publication of an edited anthology titled Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Problema, 2025). The book celebrates 10 years of organising by bringing 6 reflective pieces together with CfPs and abstracts from all our conferences.

Denmark - where social democrats happily mock right wing politician (who's been sentenced to jail for breaking human rights) for not having a strong enough immigration policy during their time as Minister. Opening of parliament and municipal elections always bring the best out of everybody.

Reviewed of Jacob Lunds book "Transformation af virkelighed: Tekster om litteratur, kunst, politik." for the journal Passage - tidsskrift for litteratur og kritik. Great book of aesthetic analysis but maybe also showcases some of the issues around the idea of politics within an aesthetic framework.

I attended the first conference in 2016 and clearly remember one of the presenters opening their talk with something like: "I had a whole presentation prepared, but then I spent the summer reading Althusser". Who shouldn't? Looking forward to present this year and meet all the other participants

Classic Friday night dishwashing material

Are you sad about summer being over soon (yes, you are💔) Want something to look forward to? (Also yes) What about hanging out with these smart and hillarious marxists at a FREE conference for exciting new marxist research and critical theory while you drink FREE coffee? (Yes, this is real life!)

Look upon your works, ye pundits, and despair

Essential questions that I want to see someone try to answer.

You might think I am hyperbolical and overly profane in my rhetoric… but this is the fucking Lemkin Institute for Genocide Studies. This is how desperate the circumstances are.

My grandmother's husband died this spring. We weren't close, but I have good memories of watching Tom & Jerry with him as a child and being curious about all the different kinds of books he had. He was not an academic, but worked in a nursing home. His love of books inspired me as I grew older.

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Danish LAPD officer: "The police don't want to get in the way of people protesting. We just don't want troublemakers there" 🤔

Danish social democratic PM's new best friend is Giorgia Meloni. They found each other over a shared sense that the conventions protects the wrong people = "smugglers". The least surprising friendship in years.

Why is the comparison wrong? What about ICE or how ICE operates demonstrates that it’s wrong?

One of the last texts I revisited Friday before closing the computer. Reading Riot. Strike. Riot. and Red Epic changed how I view and think about the world. Rip Joshua Clover

Ice in the head

Words to return to by @prolpo.bsky.social

Sossernes og den danske højrefløjs drøm.

Thanks to @routhier.bsky.social for visiting Aarhus a couple of weeks back and together with Tobias Dias introducing this beauty at the social reproduction of reading workshop! Hope to do something similar in the future.

"Dad, don't disturb me, I am working a bit"... Not sure how to feel about that...

“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.”

A couple of recent pick ups from good colleagues! New Danish translation of Ästhetische Theorie with an afterword by Tobias Dias (not on here) and an anthology with great translations and new texts on ecological thinking edited by Tobias Dias and Kristoffer Balslev Willert.

Does anyone have suggestions for texts analyzing the Fanon quote: "Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent"?

Reader service ala Jameson: skip the next 50 pages if Althusser isn't your thing

I now believe all three year olds are born in Germany before 1945.

It's really pathetic how much of fascism is just Daddy Issues

yes, I'm definitely qualified to grade these bachelor theses with topics ranging from postmodern aspects in the music of Radiohead and Gorillaz to culture sociological analysis of volunteer motivation in culture projects outside the major cities

The discussion I have with my 1.5 year old when I try to explain to him that cats doesn't say muuh:

It's been almost a year since I handed in my dissertation “Contesting Border Imaginaries: The Utopian Aesthetics of Contemporary Border Poetry". I write about how Warsan Shire, Wendy Trevino, Athena Farrokhzad and Lone Aburas in all their differences use their work to uncover the bordered present.

Last month, we, alongside Mobile Info Team & Border Violence Monitoring Network, submitted evidence to the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) highlighting human rights violations in Greek pre-removal detention centres. Full submission: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...

Palestinian babies are not spontaneously freezing to death. They are being deliberately subjected to conditions calculated to terminate life. In other words, they are being murdered. The cause of death is not the cold, but the genocide being perpetrated by Israel and the US.

I'm curious, in the theme of (failed) new year's resolutions: What's the best/most interesting book of fiction or poetry you've read reflecting on its failure to perform/complete its intended goal as artistic political intervention/social critique. It can be in form or content, intentional or not.

"2025 prediction"

Mikkel is Danish for “marx bro”

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