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Should Artists ‘Take the Money and Run’? (Art Review)

April 29, 2022October 18, 2021

The following is a preliminary version of the text published on October 6, 2021 in ArtReview: https://artreview.com/should-artists-take-the-money-and-run-jens-haaning/ The mainstream news cycle is forever doomed to … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags art, culture, financialization

A review of J. Lorand Matory’s The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud and the Gods Black People Make (Journal of Cultural Economy)

April 29, 2022July 2, 2021

This review of Review: J. Lorand Matory’s The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud and the Gods Black People Make will appear later this year in the … Read more

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags book reviews, colonialism and empire, race and racism, theory

Money and art: The worst of friends, the best of enemies

July 16, 2021June 9, 2021

The following essay appears in English and Romanian a special issue (#48/49) of the highly-regarded Romanian journal ARTA,  edited by the artist Dan Mihălțianu, whose … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags art, money, theory

Conspiracies and Countergames Online Summer Institute (19/7-05/8)

March 5, 2023June 9, 2021

Hosted by RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab What? A three-week online Summer Institute bringing together artists, activists, scholars, students, gamers and weridos to learn … Read more

Categories AnnouncementsTags conspiracies and conspiracy theories

Conspiracy Games and Countergames podcast

June 2, 2021June 3, 2021

Launched in June 2021, this is a podcast, research and intervention project about conspiracies fantasies in a gamified capitalist world, led by Max Haiven, A.T. … Read more

Categories Audio and videoTags conspiracies and conspiracy theories, podcast

Revenge Against Revenge: Biden’s Revenge Politics and “The Cure at Troy” (LA Review of Books)

April 29, 2022March 8, 2021

This essay first appeared on March 8, 2021 in The Los Angeles Review of Books: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/revenge-against-revenge-bidens-revenge-politics-and-the-cure-at-troy/ An audio version can be found here. WITH JOE … Read more

Categories Audio and video, Public EssaysTags literature, revenge, United States

Was the GameStop frenzy an artwork? (Hyperallergic)

April 29, 2022February 25, 2021

This essay originally appeared in HyperAllergic –> https://hyperallergic.com/624288/was-the-gamestop-frenzy-an-artwork/ Was the GameStop scandal some kind of massive, participatory activist artwork? In late January and early February … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags art, financialization, revenge

Revenge capitalism and the drug war (The Brief podcast)

April 29, 2022February 3, 2021

I was interviewed by  the fascinating Podcast The Brief about the opioids crisis and revenge politics. It’s available here: http://thebriefpodcast.com/revenge-capitalism-the-drug-war/

Categories Audio and videoTags colonialism and empire, opioid crisis

The GameStop saga is not the revenge against finance we deserve (Novara)

April 29, 2022February 3, 2021

My essay “The GameStop Saga Is Not the Revenge Against Finance We Deserve” has been published by Truthout here: https://truthout.org/audio/the-gamestop-saga-is-not-the-revenge-against-finance-we-deserve/ “There’s a catharsis to actually … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags financialization, imagination, revenge

The power, potential and peril of the GameStop affair (ROAR Magazine)

April 29, 2022February 3, 2021

ROAR Magazine has published my essay “The power, potential and peril of the GameStop affair”  –> https://roarmag.org/essays/gamestop-affair-financialized-resistance/   There is an apocryphal story that, in … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags financialization, imagination
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