Rethinking Marxism

A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society

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Beastly Spirits: A Pack of Folks

Nikolay Oleynikov & Oxana Timofeeva

To cite this article: Nikolay Oleynikov & Oxana Timofeeva (2016) Beastly Spirits: A Pack of
Folks, Rethinking Marxism, 28:3-4, 500-522, DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2016.1243413

To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2016.1243413

Published online: 22 Dec 2016.

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RETHINKING MARXISM, 2016
Vol. 28, Nos. 3–4, 500–522, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2016.1243413

Beastly Spirits: A Pack of Folks

Nikolay Oleynikov and Oxana Timofeeva

Nikolay Oleynikov and Oxana Timofeeva are members of the Saint Petersburg–based collective
Chto Delat, a group of nondogmatic Marxist artists, philosophers, and activists. Members of the
group are in continuous interdisciplinary dialog. This artwork is an example of the circulation
of ideas, images, and practices that flow from the members of the collective, influencing the
singular studies of each artist, and back from the singular exercises of each artist, enriching
the practices of the collective. Combining the images of Oleynikov and a text by Timofeeva,
the artwork analyzes a collective dimension of spirituality that through artistic political
practices uncovers a series of transformations of animal bodies, addressing the nonhuman
aspects of the phenomenon of comradeship. In this uncovering, questions of solidarity, pain,
and utopian community are raised and actualized in the encounter between text and image.

Key Words: Animality, Catastrophe, Metamorphosis, Solidarity, Unconscious

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