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
Public Essays
Revenge Against Revenge: Biden’s Revenge Politics and “The Cure at Troy”
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?
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
The GameStop saga is not the revenge against finance we deserve
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
The power, potential and peril of the GameStop affair
ROAR Magazine has published my essay “The power, potential and peril of the GameStop affair” –> https://roarmag.org/essays/gamestop-affair-financialized-resistance/ There is an apocryphal story that, in … Read more
Empires of Pain: A Story of Racism, Opioids and Revenge (graphic novel)
It is my great pleasure to present “Empires of Pain: A story of Racism, Opioids and Revenge,” a short 15-page web-comic I produced along with … Read more
Orcas are not taking nature’s revenge, but we should
My essay on endangered whales attacking boats in the Strait of Gibraltar has been published by ROAR Magazine here and below. Here is also an … Read more
“Revenge Spending” Won’t Get Us Out of a Crisis of Racial Capitalism
Novara has published a short essay “‘Revenge Spending’ Won’t Get Us Out of a Crisis of Racial Capitalism” Like the commodification of revenge culture, the … Read more
Rising up against white revenge
ROAR Magazine has published a short essay I wrote “Rising up against white revenge.” The current uprisings reveal that America is haunted by the reality … Read more
Revenge Fantasy or Avenging Imaginary?
E-Flux has published an edited excerpt from my book Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts. … Read more