ABSTRACT This essay examines an innovative approach to the Marxist concept of reification by the contemporary art collective Claire Fontaine, who I argue joins historical materialist and radical democratic strands of critique in their artistic and textual practice. I argue that their work responds to a conceptual impasse in contemporary theory between a radical democratic sensory micropolitics on the one hand, and a critique of political economy on the other. Their work synthesises these approaches, taking into account dynamics of commodification, financialisation, and the neoliberal reconfiguration of the relationship between politics and economics.

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修复与现成的艺术家：对新自由主义的理性批判

摘要本文探讨了当代艺术团体克莱尔·方丹（Claire Fontaine）对马克思主义的物化概念的创新方法，我认为他将历史唯物主义和激进的民主批评纳入其艺术和文本实践。我认为，他们的工作是对当代理论的概念僵局的回应，一方面是激进的民主感官微观政治，另一方面是对政治经济学的批评。他们的工作综合了这些方法，同时考虑了商品化，金融化的动态以及政治与经济学之间关系的新自由主义重新配置。