A newsletter detailing recent and upcoming activities of the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL), which I co-direct.
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Author: maxhaiven
“Are your children old enough to learn about May ’68?’: Recalling the radical event, refracting utopia and commoning memory” (article, chapter, interview)
An article, a book chapter and an audio interview about May 1968 and its legacies
Colonial Debts Extractive Nostalgias Imperial Insolvencies – Call for Interventions
A call for blog posts and full-length essays on the theme “colonial debts, extractive nostalgias, and imperial insolvencies”
Art After Money, Money After Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization
To be published in August 2018 by Pluto Press.
Navigating finance and the imagination in the City of London – a walking assembly (April 14)
A collaborative walking tour on finance and the imagination of the City of London, in the spirit of Cornelius Castoriadis.
Essay on art crypts and cryptocurrencies in INC’s Moneylab Reader 2
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
RiVAL 2017 December newsletter
The ReImagining Value Action Lab, a workshop for the radical imagination, was established in September 2017.
Coming soon: Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization (Pluto, 2018)
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
Cultures of Financialization out in paperback
Excerpts and radio interviews on the occasion of the paperback edition of my book on “Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life”
What Moves Us: The Lives and Times of the Radical Imagination
An edited collection published jointly between The Radical Imagination Project, Upping the Anti and Fernwood Publishing, October 2017
“Participatory art within, against and beyond financialization” appears in Cultural Studies
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.
Towards a materialist theory of revenge: The lives of Witches (Vagabonds 001)
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.
Alternative Financial Literacy tour, Winter 2018
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.
Colonial debts, extractive nostalgias, imperial insolvencies – Reimagining financialization (London, Sept 22-23)
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 essays on settler-colonialism
Two forthcoming essays: “The uses of financial literacy” and “Beyond the violence of colonial civility”
What Moves Us: The Lives and Times of the Radical Imagination
Information about the new co-edited collection What Moves Us: The Lives and Times of the Radical Imagination, coming this summer
Winter/Spring 2017 presentations and publications
Presentation, publications and projects, Winter/Spring 2017
Financialization… and its Monsters
A few recent publications about financialization and authoritarianism.
Canada Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice, Lakehead University
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.
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…
