A Political Economy of the Senses represents the rise of a new, dynamic critical theory for the twenty-first century. It offers at once a critique of neoliberalism's inversion of the political, a renewal of the dialectical imagination of the early Frankfurt School, and an aesthetic-based re-materialization of the political subject. Occupy Wall Street emerges in these pages not as a fleeting historical event but as the signifier of a new, open-ended human potential for emancipation to be actively constructed in the social praxis of our time.
— John Bellamy Foster, editor of the Monthly Review and author of Marx's Ecology

Anita Chari is assistant professor of political science at the University of Oregon. In addition to her work as a critical theorist, she is a creative writer, composer, and musician.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward the Materialization of Critique
Part I. 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 II. 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 III. 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
Notes
Bibliography
Index