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Debt and Financialization of Childhood (Oxford Bibliographies)

December 29, 2022January 11, 2022

The following text is a not-yet copy-edited draft of Max Haiven. 2022 (in production). “Debt and Financialization of Childhood” in Oxford Bibliographies in Childhood Studies, … Read more

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags debt, financialization

Wages of Dreamwork, Wages for Dreamwork (transmediale)

April 29, 2022December 21, 2021

Original: https://transmediale.de/almanac/wages-for-dreamwork In 1838, Louis Daguerre captured a streetscape including a Parisian shoe-shiner at work, in what is said to be the first photograph of … Read more

Categories Audio and videoTags art, colonialism and empire, dreams and dreaming, social movements

Our age of uprisings (ROAR Magazine)

April 29, 2022December 15, 2021

I’m very pleased to have contributed a framing article to the ROAR Magazine special issue MOBILIZE!, Published on 15 December 2021. The original can be … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags imagination, social movements

“Is Marx still a threat?” Extrablatt (Arts of the Working Class)

April 29, 2022December 11, 2021

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

Categories Edited CollectionsTags social movements, theory

Reappointed: Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination

December 12, 2021November 18, 2021

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

Categories Announcements

Whither Harmony Square?: Conspiracy Games in Late Capitalism (LA Review of Books)

March 16, 2023November 14, 2021

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

Categories Public EssaysTags conspiracies and conspiracy theories, financialization, games, revenge

A sci-fi reading/film group for Amazon workers (Sociological Review blog)

April 29, 2022November 9, 2021

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

Categories Public EssaysTags Amazon, literature, research methods, science/speculative fiction

Should Artists ‘Take the Money and Run’? (Art Review)

April 29, 2022October 18, 2021

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

Categories Public EssaysTags art, culture, financialization

A review of J. Lorand Matory’s The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud and the Gods Black People Make (Journal of Cultural Economy)

April 29, 2022July 2, 2021

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

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags book reviews, colonialism and empire, race and racism, theory

Money and art: The worst of friends, the best of enemies

July 16, 2021June 9, 2021

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

Categories Public EssaysTags art, money, theory
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