Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire (excerpt)
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.
Public Essays
I Dream of DeFi: A Conversation (Flash Art)
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
Our age of uprisings (ROAR Magazine)
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
Whither Harmony Square?: Conspiracy Games in Late Capitalism (LA Review of Books)
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
A sci-fi reading/film group for Amazon workers (Sociological Review blog)
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
Should Artists ‘Take the Money and Run’? (Art Review)
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
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
Revenge Against Revenge: Biden’s Revenge Politics and “The Cure at Troy” (LA Review of Books)
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? (Hyperallergic)
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 (Novara)
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