Mikkel Krause Frantzen is an associate professor in environmental aesthetics at the University of Copenhagen. He is co-PI of the research project “OIKOS: A Cultural Analysis of Care and Crisis in the 21st Century”; the author of numerous books, including Going Nowhere, Slow: The Aesthetics and Politics of Depression (2019) and Klodens Fald (2021); and the co-editor of Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary (Goldsmiths Press, 2024).
Mikkel Krause Frantzen
Articles
Making a Killing
Mikkel Krause Frantzen discusses the future of the financial thriller in an era of cryptocurrencies and climate crisis.
Endgame Emotions: The Melting of Time, the Mourning of the World
Mikkel Krause Frantzen explores emotions at the end.
Revenge: A User’s Manual
Is capitalist society nothing more than a series of random acts of senseless violence?
A Future with No Future: Depression, the Left, and the Politics of Mental Health
"Before we can throw bricks through windows, we need to be able to get out of bed." Mikkel Krause Frantzen on the politics of depression.
1982: A Factory Odyssey: On Leslie Kaplan’s “Excess — The Factory”
Mikkel Krause Frantzen finds hope in “Excess — The Factory” by Leslie Kaplan, translated from the French by Julie Carr and Jennifer Pap.
Economic and Literary Speculations
"How can the novel, and in particular the realist novel, deal with an event like the flash crash of 2010 or something like high-frequency trading?"
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