BIO and CONTACT

photo: Karin Cope

Spring  2013

Check out my page at academia.edu: http://nyu.academia.edu/MaxHaiven

Until June 29, 2013, I am a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Art and Public Policy at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

As of July 1, 2013 I will be an Assistant Professor in Division of Art History and Critical Studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I teach cultural studies and material culture.

The bulk of my research is occupied by a few key themes:

• The financialization of culture and daily life and the increasingly “cultural” aspects of finance
• The fate of the radical imagination in globalized, neoliberal, financialized times
• Creative labour in the “new economy”
• Struggles within, against and beyond the global neoliberal university paradigm
• The possibilities and perils of economic, political and cultural activism
• Cultural Studies, the study of popular culture, and of material culture
• Critical theory approaches to value, imagination, reproduction and radicalism

Please see the “writing” and “current projects” section of this site for more information.

In my teaching, I work with students to develop critical reflexive skills that empower and challenge the status quo.

I am also active in various social movements and social justice struggles, including those focused on post-secondary education, labour rights and the vitality of radical ideas.

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