Assoc. Prof. at UCPH, literary critic at Politiken, author of Going Nowhere, Slow & Klodens fald & Slutspil & The Birth of the Financial Thriller & (in 2027) The Climate Endgame Mail: mikkelfrantzen@hum.ku.dkhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social/post/3mv3lwcfimc2p@naomiaklein.bsky.social & @astra.bsky.social have also read Günther Anders! He is mobilised in this great essay about end times fascism in FT - a preview of their new book which I am looking forward to read but dont have time to integrate in my own on The Climate Endgame https://www.ft.com/content/bd134250-00d8-4bfd-bf4b-d32479ac0fed?countryCode=DNK09 Sep 2026 13:03 +0000at://did:plc:neg3czbhld2lsbuh5jgbx6aj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv3lwcfimc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social/post/3mutwtwpbqs27nostalgic for my indie youth [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Sep 2026 11:57 +0000at://did:plc:neg3czbhld2lsbuh5jgbx6aj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mutwtwpbqs27https://bsky.app/profile/mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social/post/3mutwnmlf3s2athe algorithm found this without me asking and I must admit, what a treat: the Danish super band Kirsten Ketsjer from when I had just moved to Cph and started my studies at the university (this is from a live concert from NYC, apparently, 2007): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7lLgKGLIsA06 Sep 2026 11:53 +0000at://did:plc:neg3czbhld2lsbuh5jgbx6aj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mutwnmlf3s2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social/post/3mulshdt65222Many thanks and much gratitude to editor @alirizataskale.bsky.social and to the co-authors of and contributors to the forum: Michelle Chihara (@thisblue.bsky.social), Alec Howlett and Erdogan Sima [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Sep 2026 06:17 +0000at://did:plc:neg3czbhld2lsbuh5jgbx6aj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mulshdt65222https://bsky.app/profile/mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social/post/3mulsfpuf5k22A book forum on my book "The birth of the financial thriller" (@edinburghup.bsky.social) has been just been published in @distinktionjournal.bsky.social ! https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1600910X.2026.2699896 Free eprint link here: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/99YPPTIWJ7BUQE7XVKTW/full?target=10.1080/1600910X.2026.269989603 Sep 2026 06:16 +0000at://did:plc:neg3czbhld2lsbuh5jgbx6aj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mulsfpuf5k22https://bsky.app/profile/mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social/post/3mulrjelncc2bCheminova shuts down - a lot of good people and students in this video from DGUB! https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1EYvGFSqyK/03 Sep 2026 06:00 +0000at://did:plc:neg3czbhld2lsbuh5jgbx6aj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mulrjelncc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social/post/3mu2dxvs2dc24I have been obsessed with cave paintings for a while! I was in the Niaux cave for the second time this Summer - incredible! Also incredible, this essay by T.J. Clark on such caves and paintings: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n14/t.j.-clark/night-visitors27 Aug 2026 07:42 +0000at://did:plc:neg3czbhld2lsbuh5jgbx6aj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu2dxvs2dc24https://bsky.app/profile/mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social/post/3mtlqsfqqjc27Writing is nothing, rewriting is everything. Or: Writing is overrrated; rewriting, editing, deleting, adding etc amount to at least 50% of the work. Or: The writing is good only when the editing is good.21 Aug 2026 12:22 +0000at://did:plc:neg3czbhld2lsbuh5jgbx6aj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtlqsfqqjc27https://bsky.app/profile/mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social/post/3mtiyvnnimk24hey Danish Marxism, kan nogen give mig den officielle danske oversættelse og reference til citatet her: "capital is the endless and limitless drive to go beyond its limiting barrier. Every boundary [Grenze] is and has to be a barrier [Schranke] for it. Else it would cease to be capital"20 Aug 2026 10:09 +0000at://did:plc:neg3czbhld2lsbuh5jgbx6aj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtiyvnnimk24https://bsky.app/profile/mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social/post/3mtg2piyl222jHvis du nu gik og tænkte, "gad vide hvad Henrik Dahl mon tænker om den tragiske sag vedrørende Jason Arday, ville det ikke være et berigende perspektiv?", så fortvivl ikke: Poul Pilgaard og Weekendavisen har dig https://www.weekendavisen.dk/kultur/sort-snak19 Aug 2026 06:03 +0000at://did:plc:neg3czbhld2lsbuh5jgbx6aj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtg2piyl222jhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social/post/3msxph3qxzs2xListen, when alien investigators arrive at Planet Earth in the not-so-distant future to try to found out what the hell happened here and who was responsible for the environmental destruction they will not be like: Oh, the dualisms did it!13 Aug 2026 13:05 +0000at://did:plc:neg3czbhld2lsbuh5jgbx6aj/app.bsky.feed.post/3msxph3qxzs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social/post/3msvutetdhs2vSome good news from Ittoqqortoormiit: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/groenland/groenland-bremser-amerikansk-olieprojekt12 Aug 2026 19:36 +0000at://did:plc:neg3czbhld2lsbuh5jgbx6aj/app.bsky.feed.post/3msvutetdhs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social/post/3msptqv3t2s2wIt is now possible to preorder The Birth of the Financial Thriller in paperback which means you can now buy the book and not go entirely bankrupt because the price is no longer £90.00 but £19.99! https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-birth-of-the-financial-thriller.html10 Aug 2026 10:00 +0000at://did:plc:neg3czbhld2lsbuh5jgbx6aj/app.bsky.feed.post/3msptqv3t2s2whttps://bsky.app/profile/mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social/post/3mslegupkn22fOg slutter med at citere Jørgen Leth (“Som Jørgen Leth sagde: »I Danmark er stil underprioriteret.«. Lad os begynde at prioritere det.”). Er ikke sikker på at det var det Jørgen mente med stil: to unge mænd i kedelige jakkesæt [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Aug 2026 15:16 +0000at://did:plc:neg3czbhld2lsbuh5jgbx6aj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mslegupkn22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social/post/3mslee7s7kk2f“Kære danske mænd. Træk de bukser op. Læg telefonen væk. Se menneskene omkring jer. Lær at binde et slips!” To unge mænd fra den yderste højrefløj giver den moderne mand tørt (tøj) på https://politiken.dk/debat/debatindlaeg/art10934301/Engang-tog-man-fint-t%C3%B8j-p%C3%A5-barberede-sig-var-velfriseret-og-satte-sit-h%C3%A5r.-Hvor-er-respekten-for-andre-blevet-af08 Aug 2026 15:14 +0000at://did:plc:neg3czbhld2lsbuh5jgbx6aj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mslee7s7kk2f