Abstract In October 2016, the Fiscal Monitor of the IMF issued a report which stated that the global debt ‘is currently at an all-time high’. Both before and after the crisis of 2007–2008, the levels of debt have simply exploded. No wonder, then, that a lot of contemporary artists have responded to this unprecedented historical situation. In this article, I focus on the artist duo Claire Fontaine, through three key concepts: debt, depression, strike. First, I analyse the ways in which the artist intervenes in the disastrous debt situation in the southern part of the Euro zone. Second, I argue that Claire Fontaine is concerned with the psychopathological consequences of the debt economy, in particular with the political problem of depression. Last, I show how the work of Claire Fontaine anatomises depression not only as a passive symptom, but also a paradoxical form of active resistance to the neoliberal debt regime, ie as a human strike.

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开枪打救护车？

摘要 2016 年 10 月，IMF 财政监测发布报告称，全球债务“目前处于历史最高水平”。在 2007-2008 年危机之前和之后，债务水平简直爆炸式增长。难怪许多当代艺术家都对这种前所未有的历史状况做出了回应。在这篇文章中，我通过三个关键概念来关注艺术家二人组 Claire Fontaine：债务、抑郁和罢工。首先，我分析了艺术家如何干预欧元区南部灾难性的债务局势。其次，我认为克莱尔·方丹关注的是债务经济的精神病理学后果，尤其是抑郁症的政治问题。最后，我展示了克莱尔·方丹 (Claire Fontaine) 的工作如何不仅将抑郁症解剖为一种被动症状，