Max Haiven
Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Art and Public Policy New York University and Adjunct Faculty Division of Historical and Critical Studies Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University
“Financial Totalitarianism” in Truth-Out [plus video]
Truth-out has published an article where I try and lay out, in as plain terms as possible, the idea of “financialization” as a form of totalitarianism that works on the … Continue reading
BOOK: “Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power” (Zed Books, 2014)
I’m very excited to announce that I’ve signed a contract with Zed Books to publish a shortish book titled “Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power: Capitalism, Culture and Resistance in … Continue reading
The Art and Money Project: Exploring the Nexus of Creativity and Capitalism
The fine folks over at Art Threat have graciously published this illustrated Q&A with me about the Art and Money Project. Check it out: http://artthreat.net/2013/06/art-money-project-max-haiven/ The Art and Money Project: … Continue reading
New Radical Imagination Project website
As a co-director (with Alex Khasnabish) of the Radical Imagination Project, I’m pleased to announce the launch of your new website, which has a lot of information on the research … Continue reading
The Financialization of Education and May Day
Recent radio interviews: Earlier this month, the fabulous podcast The Extraenvironmentalist broadcast a feature-length interview (1h15m) with me about the financialization of universities and of social life more broadly. The … Continue reading
Assistant Professor, Art History and Critical Studies, NSCAD
I’m thrilled to announce that, as of July 1, 2013, I will be joining the newly renamed Division of Art History and Critical Studies at the inimitable Nova Scotia College … Continue reading
BOOK: “Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life” to be published by Palgrave Macmillan (2014)
I’m delighted to announce that by first monograph Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014. I’m working on … Continue reading
Upcoming publications (Walmart and finance; The creative and the derivative, and an interview with Hari Kunzru)
I’m very pleased to announce that three new publications are slated for publication later in 2013. Walmart First, the journal Cultural Politics will be publishing my essay “Walmart, Financialization and … Continue reading
Forthcoming book: The Radical Imagination (Zed Books, 2013/4)
I’m very pleased to announce that Alex Khasnabish and I are working on a book based on our research as part of the Radical Imagination Project which will be published … Continue reading
The struggle for the soul of education: upcoming talks (Winter 2013)
This Winter/Spring, I’m giving a few talks on the fate of post-secondary education. I am a member of and indebted to the Edu-Factory Collective. Audio: You can listen to a … Continue reading
“Finance Depends on Resistance, Finance is Resistance and, anyway, Resistance is Futile” appears in Mediations
My article “Finance Depends on Resistance, Finance is Resistance and, anyway, Resistance is Futile” has appeared in a special issue of the journal Mediations: Journal of the Marxist Literary Group … Continue reading
#pdftribute
In honour of anti-copyright hero Aaron Swartz, in defiance of the intellectual property regime that persecuted him (including JSTOR), that delimit the freedom of knowledge, and enclose our cultural commons, … Continue reading
Projects, Talks and New Writing
WRITING A new piece on my experiences with the Occupy Wall Street-led relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in New York City has been published by Dissident Voice: … Continue reading
“Money and Art” tumblr
In anticipation of my Summer 2012 course at NSCAD “Art and Money” I’m developing this tumblr, collecting resources on that topic. http://moneyandart.tumblr.com/
Editing a special issue of TOPIA on “The Financialized Imagination and Beyond”
I will be co-editing a special issue of the journal TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (no. 29, Fall 2013) with the inestimable Jody Berland. The call for papers (Click … Continue reading
“Halifax’s Nocturne Versus (?) the Spectacle of Neoliberal Civics” appears in PUBLIC
My article “Halifax’s Nocturne Versus (?) the Spectacle of Neoliberal Civics” has appeared in issue 45 of the journal Public: Art, Culture, Ideas, a special issue dedicated to the question … Continue reading
Metaphoric Wealth and The Crisis of the Imagination
1. Continuum Press has posted the details of a collection edited by Todd Dufresne and Carla Sacchetti titled The Economy as Cultural System, due out in November (http://wwwwww.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=168460&SntUrl=154046), which features … Continue reading
The Privatization of Creativity: The Ruse of “Creative Capitalism” – in Dissident Voice
Dissident Voice, the wonderful radical newsletter, has published my essay “The Privatization of Creativity: The Ruse of ‘Creative Capitalism‘” (here) which attempts to give a general conceptual overview of struggles … Continue reading
“Convoking the Radical Imagination” article to appear in Cultural Studies – Critical Methodologies
I’m very pleased to announce that an article I coauthored with my research collaborator Dr. Alex Khasnabish is to appear in an upcoming issue of the journal Cultural Studies<–>Critical Methodologies. … Continue reading
Article on financialization, Pokémon and agency appears in Cultural Studies
My article “Can Pikachu Save Fannie Mae?: Value, finance and imagination in the new Pokéconomy” has appeared in the journal Cultural Studies, or at least the online “forthcoming articles” section … Continue reading
