Critical fetishes Residues of general economy Critical Fetishes. The collection of interventions presented here are argued as an interpellation and a reply to the logic of the market, which has managed to assimilate the neo-avant-garde project of the dematerialization of the art work and the consequent formalization and reduction of Conceptual practices.
We have taken it upon ourselves to excavate an alternative archive of poetic, theoretical and political strategies that recuperate, in a double movement, the ambivalence and complexity of the category of the fetish as the center of critical theorization of market society, and at the same time emphasize the fact that the notion itself emerges as a key concept of the relationship between Enlightenment thought and colonialism.
Given that the. The show Critical Fetishes. Residues of General Economy brings together works and projects by more than twenty artists who pointedly, diversely and tentatively elaborate poetic investigations of economies founded in heterogeneity, both of exchange and of productive Page 3.
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Critical Fetishes. This publication was made in conjunction with the exhibition Critical Fetishes. All texts by Karl Marx and their respective translations are shared through a creative commons license.
