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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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/
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
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
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
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
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