【玉山學者計畫X重新思考民主論壇X台文講堂】川普的反革命

【玉山學者計畫X重新思考民主論壇X台文講堂】
川普的反革命

 

時間:2019年5月23日(四) 15:00-18:00

地點:成功大學力行校區台文講堂

主講:

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen(丹麥哥本哈根大學藝術與文化研究系教授)

與談:

Alain Brossat(巴黎第八大學名譽教授、玉山學者)

林深靖(INTERCOLL亞洲地區召集人)

主持:鍾秀梅(成功大學台灣文學系副教授)

主辦:

教育部玉山學者計畫─布洛薩、國立交通大學文化研究國際中心、新國際、國立成功大學台灣文學系

 

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen 是丹麥哥本哈根大學藝術與文化研究系所教授,他是丹麥年輕一代的藝術史與政治理論批判學者,專研前衛藝術的政治性與歷史。同時深入研究反資本主義的激進理論、傳統革命、情境主義國際(Situationist International),並發表相關論文。Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen目前已有七本重要著作,其中五本為英文著作。

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen 最新著作Trump’s Counter-Revolution (Zero Books, 2018)受到重視,他分析美國總統川普的權力行使以凸顯新法西斯類型的構成,他認為晚近的法西斯資本主義阻礙所有的社會變革。川普則投射出一種美國威脅的影像,但卻足以重建一個由白種人與父權宰制的團結社群。根據Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen ,在四十年毫無節制的社會不平等發展後,川普的權力行使正是以如此的法西斯資本主義介入普羅文化與極端國族主義之間,其目的在重建昔日白人勞動階級與有恆產者聯盟的新關係,並用以阻擾Occupy運動與Black Lives Matter的聯盟建構。

本次演講,講者Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen討論川普現象產生的問題,將之視為晚近資本主義的法西斯主義,以及一種預防性的反革命。此種預防性的反革命,一方面防止社會的實質改變,以避免遭受威脅,另一方面則是重塑美國為一個統一的、白人與階層化的共同體,讓美國重獲過去的偉大。講者進一步分析此現象之徵狀,如何形塑成全球性的種族中心的法西斯主義,在資本主義秩序中取消民主,並且思考社會主義反權力,恐怕也是激發法西斯轉向的一個重要部分。

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen is the professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. He has published Crisis to Insurrection (Minor Compositions, 2015), Hegel after Occupy (Sternberg Press, 2018), After the Great Refusal: Essays on Contemporary Art, its Contradictions and Difficulties (Zero Books, 2018) and Trump’s Counter-Revolution (Zero Books, 2018) and a number of books in Danish. He has published articles about anti-capitalist activism, the revolutionary tradition, and the Situationist International.

In Trump’s Counter-Revolution, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen looks behind the craziness of Donald Trump to decipher the formation of a new kind of fascism, late-capitalist fascism, that is intent on preventing any kind of real social change. Trump projects an image of America as threatened, but capable of re-creating itself as a united, white and patriarchal community: “Make America great again”. After forty years of extreme, uneven development in the US, Trump’s late-capitalist fascism fuses popular culture and ultra-nationalism in an attempt to renew the old alliance between the white working class and the capitalist class, preventing the coming into being of an anti-capitalist alliance between Occupy and Black Lives Matter.

Trump is the symptom – but of what? Mikkel Bolt’s provocative answer is “of democracy,” that is, of democracy under conditions of capitalism and white supremacy. With this original intervention, Bolt rejects the conventional wisdom that makes democracy the cure for all that ails it. He challenges any and all concerned about the politics of Trump to consider what his victory tells us about democracy.

 

成大學生通識認證報名網址:

https://activity.ncku.edu.tw/index.php?c=apply&no=6200

 

發佈日期:2019/05/12

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Leave a Reply

發佈留言必須填寫的電子郵件地址不會公開。 必填欄位標示為 *