“Is Marx still a threat?” Extrablatt (Arts of the Working Class)
In February of 2022, the German Historical Museum in Berlin will open an exhibition on “Karl Marx and Capitalism.” They asked the Berlin-based bimonthly newspaper … Read more
Reappointed: Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination
I am honoured to be able to announce that I have been awarded a second term as a tier II Canada Research Chair (CRC) at … Read more
Whither Harmony Square?: Conspiracy Games in Late Capitalism (LA Review of Books)
The following piece by Conspiracy Games and Countergames reseachers Max Haiven, A. T. Kingsmith and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou was printed in the Los Angeles Review of … Read more
A sci-fi reading/film group for Amazon workers (Sociological Review blog)
I am very pleased to be working with Graeme Webb and Xenia Benivolski on a new project that is piloting a methodology for using science … Read more
Should Artists ‘Take the Money and Run’? (Art Review)
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
A review of J. Lorand Matory’s The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud and the Gods Black People Make (Journal of Cultural Economy)
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
Money and art: The worst of friends, the best of enemies
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
Conspiracies and Countergames Online Summer Institute (19/7-05/8)
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
Conspiracy Games and Countergames podcast
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
Revenge Against Revenge: Biden’s Revenge Politics and “The Cure at Troy” (LA Review of Books)
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