Skip to content
News ~ Events ~ Books ~ Projects ~ Writing ~ Media ~ Games

Max Haiven

Public Essays

Artwork: Colnate Group (cc by nc)

Climate Workers of the World Unite? (BG)

May 2, 2023May 1, 2023

This text was commissioned by the Berliner Gazette for their 2023 project Allied Grounds. It is in English here and German here. Climate Workers of … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags climate and ecology, social movements

Clue-Anon, gaming conspiracy, and the anti-authoritarian imagination

March 16, 2023March 5, 2023

An edited version of following text will appear later in 2023 as part of the Global Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Counterstrategies, published by the Rosa … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags authoritarianism, conspiracies and conspiracy theories, games

For the refusal of unpayable debts: An artists’ roundtable with Dele Adeyemo, Ahmed Isamaldin, Bahar Noorizadeh, and Gary Zhexi Zhang (JCE)

March 4, 2023March 4, 2023

The following roundtable, presented here in preliminary, unedited form, will be published in a special issue of The Journal of Cultural Economy on the topic … Read more

Categories Interviews, Public EssaysTags art, colonialism and empire, culture, debt, financialization, money, race and racism

The fate of the artist at the end of  capitalism’s cosmology

September 22, 2022September 5, 2022

This essay was commissioned as the inaugural input to Gamechanger, a Berlin-based platform to “explore contemporary mindsets and cultures of self-organization and work in the … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags art

Is Amazon the Borg? We Asked Their Workers (LA Review of Books)

May 6, 2022May 7, 2022

This essay was published in the Los Angeles Review of Books on May 7, 2022. Is Amazon the Borg? We Asked Their Workers By Max … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags Amazon, imagination, social movements

The Sacrificial Altar of Extractive Capitalism: Notes on Abolition and Transition (Mediapart/Berliner Gazette)

May 2, 2022May 2, 2022

This text, published in English on Mediapart, is a contribution to the Berliner Gazette’s “After Extractivism” text series; its German version is available on Berliner … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags Palm Oil

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

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

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
Post navigation
Older posts
1 2 … 5 Next →
CC BY-NC-ND 2023
Scroll back to top