Max Haiven

Currencies of the undercommons: The hidden ledger of proletarian money sabotage

The Institute for Network Cultures has just published the State Machines Reader (free online!), edited by Yiannis Colakides, Marc Garrett and Inte Gloerich. It’s a phenomenal collection of essays, art and interventions in which I have a chapter titled “Currencies of the Undercommons: The Hidden Ledger of Proletarian Money Sabotage.” The broader State Machines project,…

Two conferences in April on debt, finance, empire, race and colonialism

“Finance Capital & the Ghosts of Empire” (April 5-6 in Sussex) and “Digital/Debt/Empire” (April 25-28) in Vancouver.

The colonial secrets of Canada’s most racist city

I forgot to update this site with the publication, last month, of my essay (with an audio version) “The colonial secrets of Canada’s most racist city” in ROAR Magazine: https://roarmag.org/essays/colonial-secrets-canadas-racist-city/

Our opium wars, art under an empire of unpayable debts and the order of the derivative

Three newish pieces on the opioid crisis, the debt crisis and the financial crisis.

London launch events, December 2018

Book events in London Dec. 5, 6 and 9 for Art After Money, Money After Art

Counterspeculation: Podcast, audio-tour and blog

A podcast, audio-tour and blog series about finance and the imagination, organized and curated by Max Haiven and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou in collaboration with the UCL Urban Lab

October launch events for Art after Money

Launch events in NYC Oct 7, 10 and 11, in the GTA on Oct 12 and 15 and beyond.

“Colonial Debts, Imperial Insolvencies, Extractive Nostalgias” focus section of Discover Society

Clea Bourne, Paul Gilbert, Johnna Montgomerie and I have edited a special section of Discover Society on the topic of “Colonial Debts, Imperial Insolvencies, Extractive Nostalgias,” building on the illuminating gathering we organized on the topic last Fall in London.

Call for hosts: talks and workshops (2018/2019) – Art after Money, Money after Art

This fall and winter I have some capacity and resources to travel in North America and Europe to deliver talks and workshops associated with my new book Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization

Counterspeculations blog series on the financial imagination

A series of fascinating essays on finance and the imagination, published by Public Seminar

RiVAL July 2018 newsletter

A newsletter detailing recent and upcoming activities of the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL), which I co-direct.

“Are your children old enough to learn about May ’68?’: Recalling the radical event, refracting utopia and commoning memory” (article, chapter, interview)

An article, a book chapter and an audio interview about May 1968 and its legacies

Colonial Debts Extractive Nostalgias Imperial Insolvencies – Call for Interventions

A call for blog posts and full-length essays on the theme “colonial debts, extractive nostalgias, and imperial insolvencies”

Navigating finance and the imagination in the City of London – a walking assembly (April 14)

A collaborative walking tour on finance and the imagination of the City of London, in the spirit of Cornelius Castoriadis.

Essay on art crypts and cryptocurrencies in INC’s Moneylab Reader 2

I have a chapter on “The Crypt of Art, the Decryption of Money, the Encrypted Common and
the Problem with Cryptocurrencies” in the Moneylab Reader 2

RiVAL 2017 December newsletter

The ReImagining Value Action Lab, a workshop for the radical imagination, was established in September 2017.

Coming soon: Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization (Pluto, 2018)

I am now putting the finishing touches on the manuscript for a book titled Art After Money, Money After Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization to be published by Pluto Press of London in 2018

Cultures of Financialization out in paperback

Excerpts and radio interviews on the occasion of the paperback edition of my book on “Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life”

“Participatory art within, against and beyond financialization” appears in Cultural Studies

After a lengthy wait my article “Participatory art within, against and beyond financialization: Benign pessimism, tactical parasitics and the encrypted common” has been published by the journal Cultural Studies.

Towards a materialist theory of revenge: The lives of Witches (Vagabonds 001)

I’m very pleased to announce my essay Towards a materialist theory of revenge: The lives of Witches is the first in a new series of peer-reviewed working papers, VAGABONDS, which I edit under the auspices of the ReImagining Value Action Lab.

Alternative Financial Literacy tour, Winter 2018

We at the University of the Phoenix are looking for hosts and supporters in the Midwest and North-East USA for the first of what will hopefully be a series of radical financial literacy tours in January and February of 2018.

Colonial debts, extractive nostalgias, imperial insolvencies – Reimagining financialization (London, Sept 22-23)

Join us at Goldsmiths, University of London, September 22-23 for a two-day gathering on the theme of “Colonial debts, extractive nostalgias, imperial insolvencies – Reimagining financialization”

Two essays on settler-colonialism

Two forthcoming essays: “The uses of financial literacy” and “Beyond the violence of colonial civility”

What Moves Us: The Lives and Times of the Radical Imagination

Information about the new co-edited collection What Moves Us: The Lives and Times of the Radical Imagination, coming this summer