Marx’s Vindication or Marx’s Revenge (audio)
This talk, “Marx’s Vindication or Marx’s Revenge?” by RiVAL co-director Max Haiven, was recorded in March of 2018 at the “200 anos de Marx” conference … Read more
The Crypt of Art, the Decryption of Money, the Encrypted Common and the Problem of Cryptocurrencies
Citation Haiven, Max. 2018. “The Crypt of Art, the Decryption of Money, the Encrypted Common and the Problem of Cryptocurrencies.” In Moneylab Reader 2: Overcoming … Read more
The Uses of Financial Literacy
Citation Haiven, Max. 2017. “The Uses of Financial Literacy: Financialization, the Radical Imagination, and the Unpayable Debts of Settler-Colonialism.” Cultural Politics 13 (3): 348–69. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-4211350 … Read more
“The logic of financialization is a poison in our hearts and our minds” on This is Hell! (audio))
A shorter interview with the folks at Chicago’s finest radio program, This is Hell! about financialization. Writer Max Haiven finds financialization at the heart of … Read more
Financialization, precarity and reactionary authoritarianism (ROAR)
Original: https://roarmag.org/essays/haiven-cultures-financialization-excerpt/ The following is an excerpt from Max Haiven’s 2014 book Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life, released last month … Read more
“Confronting Financialization Demands a Radical Cultural Politics” in Public Seminar
Original: https://publicseminar.org/2017/09/confronting-financialization-demands-a-radical-cultural-politics/ The following is a synoptic excerpt from the conclusion of Max Haiven’s Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life, published … Read more
Wars on social reproduction: On feminism, the commons, and joyful militancy (interview with Silvia Federici)
An interview with the legendary feminist theorist and organizer Silvia Federici as part of the collection What Moves Us: The Lives and times of the … Read more
Be Prepared to Win: Indigenous Struggles and the Radical Imagination (Interview with Sherry Pictou))
I interviewed my friend and colleague Sherry Pictou for a collection that Alex Khasnabish and I edited titled What Moves Us: The Lives and Times … Read more
Participatory Art within, against and beyond Financialization
Citation Haiven, Max. 2018. “Participatory Art within, against and beyond Financialization: Benign Pessimism, Tactical Parasitics and the Encrypted Common.” Cultural Studies 32 (4): 530–59. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2017.1363260 … Read more
A Utopia for Money
This essay touches on themes covered in more detail in my book Art After Money, Money After Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization Original: http://publicseminar.org/2017/04/a-utopia-for-money/ French … Read more