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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

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

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

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

Revenge Against Revenge: Biden’s Revenge Politics and “The Cure at Troy” (LA Review of Books)

April 29, 2022March 8, 2021

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

Categories Audio and video, Public EssaysTags literature, revenge, United States

Was the GameStop frenzy an artwork? (Hyperallergic)

April 29, 2022February 25, 2021

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

Categories Public EssaysTags art, financialization, revenge

The GameStop saga is not the revenge against finance we deserve (Novara)

April 29, 2022February 3, 2021

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

Categories Public EssaysTags financialization, imagination, revenge
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