Max Haiven

Autumn 2016: Seville, Berlin, London, Amsterdam and the University of the Phoenix

This autumn I’m in Europe for a few conferences, and also working on one book about art and money and one book about… a secret topic. A few ongoing and upcoming events I’m participating in: Sept 28-29, Sevilla, Spain –III Encuentro Mil formas de mirar y hacer: Artes y Movimientos Sociales, a conference on ART…

Coming of Age in the Financialized Pokéconomy

In recognition of the Pokémon franchise with the release of the augmented reality game Pokémon Go, I thought I’d share “Play: Coming of Age in the Speculative Pokéconomy,” a chapter from my 2014 book Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life.

Cassie Thornton and Max Haiven in conversation

The Australian publication Dancehouse Diary has published a conversation between me and Cassie Thornton, of the Feminist Economics Department. It is part of a really interesting special issue about Money and can be found here: http://www.dancehousediary.com.au/?p=3179

On borders, financialization, movement and the imagination

Borders and money are conjoined technologies of the weaponized imagination rooted in colonialism and racial capitalism.

Melbourne and Cambridge

In addition to all sorts of exciting things happening in Halifax with the Radical Imagination Project (such as a Free School radical educational gathering March 5-6 – please propose a workshop), I’m excited to do some travel this term. In mid-February I’ll be in Melbourne, Australia to give a masterclass “Beyond the Financialized Imagination” and a lecture…

Europe 2015, research and speaking

I’m in Europe this fall delivering a few talks and doing research into struggles against austerity. From October through December I’ll be in Germany, Ireland, Greece, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal. Some of my speaking engagements are lining up now. I’ll post more information as it becomes available over at: https://maxhaiven.com/speaking/ There are speaking events lined or lining up in…

Art and Money: Three Aesthetic Strategies in an Age of Financialisation (in Finance and Society)

I’m pleased to announce that my essay “Art and Money: Three Aesthetic Strategies in an Age of Financialisation” has been published in the inaugural issue of the post-disciplinary journal Finance and Society on the theme “Hard Cash.” You can read and download the article at http://financeandsociety.org/article/vol-1-no-1-2015-haiven/ Abstract Recent decades of financialisation have seen a significant growth…

Regarding the Dam | Watermark review essay

Late last year, I prepared a review essay regarding Edward Burtynksy and Jennifer Baichwal’s film Watermark for Harvard Design Magazine‘s 39th issue “Wet Matter.” Unfortunately, the HDM could only publish and abbreviated version because the issue was packed with a great variety of other fascinating material, all presented in a truly lovely package. Thanks to Pierre Bélanger, Jennifer Sigler and Leah Whitman-Salkin…

Reimagining our collective powers against austerity (BG/ROAR)

From http://roarmag.org/2015/06/max-haiven-common-austerity/ (In German) from Berliner Gazette Part 1 – http://berlinergazette.de/recht-auf-gemeinschaftseigentum/ Part 2 – http://berlinergazette.de/commons-als-menschenrecht/ The following edited text is based on an interview with Max Haiven by the Berliner Gazette on the topic of their annual theme UN|COMMONS. It is published under Creative Commons License. Established in the late 1990s, the Berliner Gazette is an online magazine and…

In conversation about art, finance, imagination and revolution with Zachary Gough

Artist Zachary Gough has, via the Publication Studio, just published a very exciting little book of conversations between himself and Cassie Thornton, Thomas Gokey and me. You can read, download or buy the book A Soft Spot in a Hard Place, here: http://www.publicationstudio.biz/books/301 Here is the conversation between Zach and me.

A short essay on Futures (2013) by Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge

I wrote the following short essay to accompany Carol Condé and Karl Beveridge’s exhibition’Scene Otherwise’ at the Khyber Centre for the Arts in Halifax April 17th – May 13th, 2015 (organized by NSCAD’s Anna Leonowens Gallery and part of the Mayworks Festival).

“Money as a medium of the Imagination” in the MoneyLab Reader

My chapter “Money as a Medium of the Imagination: Art and the Currencies of Cooperation” has been published in the MoneyLab Reader from the Institute for Network Cultures.

“Creativity and the Commons” in STIR.

My article “Creativity and the Commons” has appeared in the Winter 2015 issue of STIR, a magazine about co-ops, community and commons. You can order a copy here: http://stirtoaction.com/

Art and Money course at the Halifax Public Library in January 2015

This January I’ll be offering my course Art and Money jointly through the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and the brand new Central branch of the Halifax Public Library. The lectures are open to interested members of the public from 1-2pm every Tuesday starting January 6 and concluding April 14. Registered students (and anyone…

The Radical Imagination – now out (+excerpts)

We’re thrilled to announce the publication of our book The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity, now out from Zed Books and Fernwood Publishing. Purchase a copy Summary Chapters Endorsements Excerpts, reviews and interviews Purchase a copy UK, Overseas and e-book: Zed Books USA: Macmillan Canada: Fernwood Publishing Kindle: Amazon Summary The idea of the imagination…

On Financialization – radio interview on Against the Grain

KPFA’s Against the Grain has broadcast an hour-long feature interview with me on the topic of financialization. http://www.againstthegrain.org/program/944/mon-60914-financializations-reach

Money and Art: An Interview with Max Haiven

Here is a digital version of an interview about my work on money, art and finance, published in the Spring issue of Crit.

The Ivory Cage and the Ghosts of Academe, and an open letter to Bush II about his “art”

Two online publications in the past few days: Over at Truth-out, my essay “The Ivory Cage and the Ghosts of Academe: Labor and Struggle in the Edu-Factory,” which discusses the deplorable state of post-secondary/higher education today, and the need to contextualize its decline within the anti-capitalist framework developed by the Edu-Factory Collective. http://truth-out.org/news/item/23391-the-ivory-cage-and-the-ghosts-of-academe-labor-and-struggle-in-the-edu-factory Check out…

TOPIA 30/31 “The Financialized Imagination” (April 2014)

I am extremely pleased to announce that, after many months of work, a special double issue (30/31) of TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies has been released. Purchase it and get more information here: http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/topia/index Jody Berland and I co-edited this theme issue, which includes a host of phenomenal contributions from a wide range of…

Book launches and talks (London, Leicester, Essex, Amsterdam, New York, Halifax, Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton)

I’m very pleased to be having book launches or to be giving talks in a variety of places in March and April of 2014 (info about the book: https://maxhaiven.com/2013/09/26/crises-of-the-imagination/): March 17, 3:30pm (Leicester): Talk: “Fictitious Capital, Metaphoric Wealth: Financialization and its Discontents” University of Leicester Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy – details: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/management/research/units/cppe/archiveactivities/2014-3-haiven-seminar –…

“Capitalism’s Crisis of Value and Imagination” in Truth-Out

Truth-Out has published an excerpt from my book Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power: Capitalism, Creativity and the Commons (Zed Books, March 2014) titled “Capitalism’s Crisis of Value and Imagination.” It can be found here: http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/21647-capitalisms-crisis-of-value-and-imagination Another excerpt from the book can be found here: http://roarmag.org/2014/01/max-haiven-crises-of-imagination/ Here is the article: You, dear reader, are on…

“The Creative and the Derivative” appears in Radical History Review

My article “The Creative and the Derivative: Historicizing Creativity under post-Bretton Woods Financialization” has appeared in the journal Radical History Review, in a special issue (#118) on the “Fictions of Finance” edited by Dara Orenstein and Aaron Carico. The article can be found here: http://rhr.dukejournals.org/content/2014/118/113.abstract A preliminary, unproofed version can be found over at my Academia.edu…

“Walmart, Financialization and the Cultural Politics of Securitization” appears in Cultural Politics

The journal Cultural Politics (9.2) has published my article “”Walmart, Financialization and the Cultural Politics of Securitization” (http://culturalpolitics.dukejournals.org/content/9/3/239.abstract)