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
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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
Was the GameStop frenzy an artwork? (Hyperallergic)
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
Revenge capitalism and the drug war (The Brief podcast)
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/
The GameStop saga is not the revenge against finance we deserve (Novara)
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