Launching: Worker as Futurist, an SF group for Amazon workers
We are launching a paid group for current and former Amazon workers to write about the future they envision. Applications due Feb 10, 2023
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Zero Credit: Countering the Dreams of Techno-Finance (TOPIA)
TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies has published its 45th issue, mostly made up of a section edited by Benjamin J. Anderson, Enda Brophy and … Read more
An interview with Wu Ming 1 about the Qanon conspiracy fantasy, collective creativity, and the (ab)uses of enchantment (Theory, Culture, and Society)
An edited version of this interview will appear in a future issue of Theory, Culture, and Society. It is a transcribed and edited version of … Read more
The fate of the artist at the end of capitalism’s cosmology
This essay was commissioned as the inaugural input to Gamechanger, a Berlin-based platform to “explore contemporary mindsets and cultures of self-organization and work in the … Read more
An ‘anxiety epidemic’ in the financialized university: Critical questions and unexpected resistance (Cultural Politics)
This article, written be me and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, has appeared in the 18th volume of the journal Cultural Politics. Financialization is transforming social subjects and … Read more
Dreaming together: Artists mobilizing collective dreaming methods for the radical imagination (Capacious)
The following article appeared in 2022 a slightly different form in volume 3.1 of the open-access Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry. It stems from … Read more
Dangerous Play in an age of Technofinance (TOPIA)
The following text, which has not yet been copyedited or proofed, was co-authored by Max Haiven, AT Kingsmith and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and is forthcoming in … Read more
CBC interview on Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire and other interviews and reviews
Last month, my book Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire was published by Pluto Books. Since then a number of interviews and reviews have come … Read more
Is Amazon the Borg? We Asked Their Workers (LA Review of Books)
This essay was published in the Los Angeles Review of Books on May 7, 2022. Is Amazon the Borg? We Asked Their Workers By Max … Read more
The Sacrificial Altar of Extractive Capitalism: Notes on Abolition and Transition (Mediapart/Berliner Gazette)
This text, published in English on Mediapart, is a contribution to the Berliner Gazette’s “After Extractivism” text series; its German version is available on Berliner … Read more