Canada Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice, Lakehead University
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
Launch events in NYC Oct 7, 10 and 11, in the GTA on Oct 12 and 15 and beyond.
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.
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
A series of fascinating essays on finance and the imagination, published by Public Seminar
A newsletter detailing recent and upcoming activities of the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL), which I co-direct.
An article, a book chapter and an audio interview about May 1968 and its legacies
A call for blog posts and full-length essays on the theme “colonial debts, extractive nostalgias, and imperial insolvencies”
A collaborative walking tour on finance and the imagination of the City of London, in the spirit of Cornelius Castoriadis.
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
The ReImagining Value Action Lab, a workshop for the radical imagination, was established in September 2017.
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
Excerpts and radio interviews on the occasion of the paperback edition of my book on “Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life”
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.
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.
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.
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 forthcoming essays: “The uses of financial literacy” and “Beyond the violence of colonial civility”
Information about the new co-edited collection What Moves Us: The Lives and Times of the Radical Imagination, coming this summer
Presentation, publications and projects, Winter/Spring 2017
A few recent publications about financialization and authoritarianism.
As of 1 January 2017, I will be taking up the position of Canada Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
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…
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.
