A Political Economy of the Senses: Neoliberalism, Reification, Critique

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Toward the Materialization of Critique

PART ONE: NEOLIBERAL SYMPTOMS

1. NEOLIBERAL SYMPTOMS: THE IMPASSE BETWEEN ECONOMICS AND POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THEORY

2. NEOLIBERALISM AND NORMATIVE AMBIVALENCE: THIRD-GENERATION CRITICAL THEORY AND THE FETISH OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY

PART TWO: THE CRITIQUE OF REIFICATION

3. ALIENATION AND DEPOLITICIZATION: REJOINING RADICAL DEMOCRACY WITH THE CRITIQUE OF CAPITALISM

4. LUKÁCS’S TURN TO A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE SENSES

5. THE REVERSIBILITY OF REIFICATION: ADORNO FROM THE AESTHETIC TO THE SOCIAL

PART THREE: A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE SENSES

6. DEFETISHIZING FETISHES: ART AND THE CRITIQUE OF CAPITAL IN NEOLIBERAL SOCIETY

7. OCCUPY WALL STREET: CHALLENGING NEOLIBERAL REIFICATION