Unwriting Amazon
The following short essay appears as part of Research and Teaching with Speculative Fiction: Transdisciplinary Readings and Methods, edited by Sarah E. Truman and available … Read more
Academic Articles and Chapters
The speculative imagination within, against and beyond Amazon (Distinktion)
The following essay has appeared in Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory. The speculative imagination within, against and beyond Amazon: the Worker as Futurist project in … Read more
Capitalism Cheats (Finance & Society)
The following essay will appear in a forthcoming issue of Finance and Society Capitalism cheats: Three moments of normalized swindling Max HaivenCanada Research Chair in … Read more
Towards a theory of the playgrom: Deep and dark playbor and the work of fascism (Media Theory)
An article for Media Theory about playgroms: “an idiom of fascistic mob violence that emerges within but that also exceeds a digitalized, financialized and gamified mode of capitalism”
It’s all a Game, and the Game is Deadly Real (Making & Breaking)
For the Spring 2025 issue of Making & Breaking, I’ve offered a snapshot of some of the ideas from my forthcoming book The Player and the Played: Gamification, Financialization and (anti-)Fascism.
Writing Back Against Amazon’s Empire (Triple-C)
A copy-edited version of the following paper, “Writing Back Against Amazon’s Empire: Science Fiction, Corporate Storytelling, and the Dignity of the Workers’ Word,” by Max … Read more
Financial capital and ghosts of empire (editorial essay)
The following text was published in January 2024 and is the editorial introduction to a special section of the Journal of Cultural Economy on Finance … Read more
Why play games with conspiracies? (ephemera)
A reflection on creating and playing CLUE-ANON, a board game about why conspiracy theories are so fun… and so dangerous.
From financialization to derivative fascisms (Social Text)
A slightly updated version of this article has been published in Social Text 155 (2023): https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10383207 Abstract The last 40 years of financialization has laid … Read more
Sacrifice (Finance Aesthetics)
An edited version of the following text will be published in 2024 as part of Goldsmiths Press’s Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary, edited by Frederik … Read more