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A reflection on the radical imagination: From finance to social movements to games (Junkyard)

April 29, 2022April 27, 2022

A reflection on how I came to be fascinated by the power of the imagination for The Junkyard: A scholarly blog devoted to the study of imagination

Categories Public EssaysTags financialization, imagination, social movements

Far from Ukraine, Putin’s War Worsens Palm Oil Crisis (Boston Review)

April 29, 2022April 27, 2022

A piece in Boston Review about the imperial history of palm oil, from the transatlantic slave trade to the invasion of Ukraine.

Categories Public EssaysTags colonialism and empire, Palm Oil, race and racism

“Revenge Politics, Revenge Economy, Revenge Culture” dossier (Social Text Periscope)

April 29, 2022April 22, 2022

Text, the venerable journal of critical theory, has published a dossier of short pieces on revenge in their online annex, Periscope

Categories Edited CollectionsTags colonialism and empire, culture, imagination, race and racism, revenge, theory

Notes towards a theory of risk management as human sacrifice (and vice versa) (Schemas of Uncertainty)

December 29, 2022April 21, 2022

An essay on racial capitalism, empire and the gory capitalist cosmology

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags colonialism and empire, financialization, race and racism, theory

Recasting the future with Amazon workers (Routledge Handbook of Creative Futures)

June 17, 2022April 20, 2022

An essay for the Routledge International Handbook for Creative Futures about how we can work with Amazon workers to envision radical alternatives

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags Amazon

Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire (excerpt)

December 29, 2022April 1, 2022

mystified human sacrifice, hidden in plain sight. The stories I tell in Palm Oil trace this system’s contours and seek answers in its past.

Categories Public EssaysTags Palm Oil

Entangled Legacies: Race, finance and inequality (Manchester University Press)

April 2, 2023March 17, 2022

Manchester University Press 2023: a collection edited by Paul Gilbert, Clea Bourne, Max Haiven and Johnna Montgomerie for newcomers and specialists alike

Categories Edited CollectionsTags colonialism and empire, financialization, race and racism

Genres Against Markets workshop, Berlin July 11-15

March 9, 2022March 9, 2022

If you aren’t automatically redirected, please visit https://reimaginingvalue.ca/genres/

Categories Announcements

I Dream of DeFi: A Conversation (Flash Art)

April 29, 2022February 9, 2022

Original –> https://flash—art.com/2021/01/defi-decentralization-crypto-art/ I Dream of DeFi. A Conversation with Ruth Catlow, Max Grünberg, Max Haiven, Aude Launay, and Denise Thwaites, curated by Alex Estorick … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags art, financialization, money

Financialization and failure: Lessons from the anxious university (Routledge International Handbook of Failure)

June 17, 2022February 3, 2022

The following is the uncorrected text for a chapter in the forthcoming Routledge International Handbook of Failure: Critical Perspectives from Sociology and other Social Sciences, … Read more

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags education, financialization, mental health, neoliberalism
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