Anita Chari is a political theorist and writer based in Portland, Oregon and is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon. Her work explores the significance of aesthetics, artistic practices, and embodiment for critical theory and practice. Identifying sensate dissociation and the commodification of desire as central features of current regimes of political domination, her work mobilizes critical theory, somatic work, movement, artistic practices, and the voice to reveal new possibilities for political subjectivity in the present. Her recent work has appeared in Claire Fontaine: Newsfloor (Walter Koenig, 2019), Catalyst (Noxious Sector Press, 2018), Somatic Voices in Performance Research and Beyond (Routledge, 2020), Social Dynamics (Routledge, 2020), and The Hysterical Material (Smart Museum of Art and Soberscove Press, 2017). Her first monograph, A Political Economy of the Senses (Columbia University Press, 2015) is a study of the concept of reification in critical theory and aesthetic practices, and approaches artworks as a form of materialization of critique.