Max Haiven

In conversation about art, finance, imagination and revolution with Zachary Gough

Artist Zachary Gough has, via the Publication Studio, just published a very exciting little book of conversations between himself and Cassie Thornton, Thomas Gokey and me. You can read, download or buy the book A Soft Spot in a Hard Place, here: http://www.publicationstudio.biz/books/301 Here is the conversation between Zach and me.

A short essay on Futures (2013) by Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge

I wrote the following short essay to accompany Carol Condé and Karl Beveridge’s exhibition’Scene Otherwise’ at the Khyber Centre for the Arts in Halifax April 17th – May 13th, 2015 (organized by NSCAD’s Anna Leonowens Gallery and part of the Mayworks Festival).

“Money as a medium of the Imagination” in the MoneyLab Reader

My chapter “Money as a Medium of the Imagination: Art and the Currencies of Cooperation” has been published in the MoneyLab Reader from the Institute for Network Cultures.

“Creativity and the Commons” in STIR.

My article “Creativity and the Commons” has appeared in the Winter 2015 issue of STIR, a magazine about co-ops, community and commons. You can order a copy here: http://stirtoaction.com/

Art and Money course at the Halifax Public Library in January 2015

This January I’ll be offering my course Art and Money jointly through the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and the brand new Central branch of the Halifax Public Library. The lectures are open to interested members of the public from 1-2pm every Tuesday starting January 6 and concluding April 14. Registered students (and anyone…

The Radical Imagination – now out (+excerpts)

We’re thrilled to announce the publication of our book The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity, now out from Zed Books and Fernwood Publishing. Purchase a copy Summary Chapters Endorsements Excerpts, reviews and interviews Purchase a copy UK, Overseas and e-book: Zed Books USA: Macmillan Canada: Fernwood Publishing Kindle: Amazon Summary The idea of the imagination…

On Financialization – radio interview on Against the Grain

KPFA’s Against the Grain has broadcast an hour-long feature interview with me on the topic of financialization. http://www.againstthegrain.org/program/944/mon-60914-financializations-reach

Money and Art: An Interview with Max Haiven

Here is a digital version of an interview about my work on money, art and finance, published in the Spring issue of Crit.

The Ivory Cage and the Ghosts of Academe, and an open letter to Bush II about his “art”

Two online publications in the past few days: Over at Truth-out, my essay “The Ivory Cage and the Ghosts of Academe: Labor and Struggle in the Edu-Factory,” which discusses the deplorable state of post-secondary/higher education today, and the need to contextualize its decline within the anti-capitalist framework developed by the Edu-Factory Collective. http://truth-out.org/news/item/23391-the-ivory-cage-and-the-ghosts-of-academe-labor-and-struggle-in-the-edu-factory Check out…

TOPIA 30/31 “The Financialized Imagination” (April 2014)

I am extremely pleased to announce that, after many months of work, a special double issue (30/31) of TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies has been released. Purchase it and get more information here: http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/topia/index Jody Berland and I co-edited this theme issue, which includes a host of phenomenal contributions from a wide range of…

Book launches and talks (London, Leicester, Essex, Amsterdam, New York, Halifax, Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton)

I’m very pleased to be having book launches or to be giving talks in a variety of places in March and April of 2014 (info about the book: https://maxhaiven.com/2013/09/26/crises-of-the-imagination/): March 17, 3:30pm (Leicester): Talk: “Fictitious Capital, Metaphoric Wealth: Financialization and its Discontents” University of Leicester Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy – details: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/management/research/units/cppe/archiveactivities/2014-3-haiven-seminar –…

“Capitalism’s Crisis of Value and Imagination” in Truth-Out

Truth-Out has published an excerpt from my book Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power: Capitalism, Creativity and the Commons (Zed Books, March 2014) titled “Capitalism’s Crisis of Value and Imagination.” It can be found here: http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/21647-capitalisms-crisis-of-value-and-imagination Another excerpt from the book can be found here: http://roarmag.org/2014/01/max-haiven-crises-of-imagination/ Here is the article: You, dear reader, are on…

“The Creative and the Derivative” appears in Radical History Review

My article “The Creative and the Derivative: Historicizing Creativity under post-Bretton Woods Financialization” has appeared in the journal Radical History Review, in a special issue (#118) on the “Fictions of Finance” edited by Dara Orenstein and Aaron Carico. The article can be found here: http://rhr.dukejournals.org/content/2014/118/113.abstract A preliminary, unproofed version can be found over at my Academia.edu…

“Walmart, Financialization and the Cultural Politics of Securitization” appears in Cultural Politics

The journal Cultural Politics (9.2) has published my article “”Walmart, Financialization and the Cultural Politics of Securitization” (http://culturalpolitics.dukejournals.org/content/9/3/239.abstract)

Money as Artistic Media: Coins of the Realm (illustrated lecture)

Here is a video (http://vimeo.com/79456679) of a presentation titled “Money as Artistic Media: Coins of the Realm” I gave at the Art and Money symposium at New Zealand’s Dunedin School of Art in August of 2013, as part of my ReImagining Money project. I argue that artistic works that mobilize money (coins, bills, etc.) as…

“Between Success and Failure: Dwelling with Social Movements in the Hiatus” in Interface: A Journal for and About Social Movements

Alex Khasnabish and I have co-authored an article titled “Between Success and Failure: Dwelling with Social Movements in the Hiatus” which has appeared in the most recent issue (5.2) of the phenomenal journal Interface: A Journal for and About Social Movements. Interface has a unique peer-review process that includes both an academic and an activist reviewer…

Chapter “The Dammed of the Earth” in the Thinking With Water collection

I have a chapter appearing in this great new collection titled Thinking With Water edited by Cecilia Chen, Janine MacLeod and Astrida Neimanis (McGill-Queen’s University Press, Fall 2013). From the MQUP website: As a life-giving but also potentially destructive substance, water occupies a prominent place in the imagination. At the same time, water issues are among…

A People’s Bank – Nocturne Halifax, Saturday Oct 19, 6pm-12am, NSCAD Library

UPDATE: “A People’s Bank” was a great success, with over 2100 attendees through the evening. Documentation can be found here: http://reimaginingmoney.net/exhibition/nocturne-2013-documentation/ A PEOPLE’S BANK October 19, 2013 – 6pm-12am – The NSCAD University Library – 5163 Duke St, Halifax NS Part of the Nocturne Art at Night Festival (http://nocturnehalifax.ca/) The financial crisis of 2008 and…

“The Debt of Creativity” TED Talk

In March, I delivered a TED Talk at TEDxNovaScotia on “The Debt of Creativity,” which was about debt, creativity, the radical imagination, Gustav Courbet, student loans, indentured labour, the Paris Commune, globalization and whatever else I could cram into my 15 minutes of fame. I’m not a huge fan of TED talks, but I hope…

CD: Virality, Solidarity and Meme Warfare

Here’s a short article I wrote for Canadian Dimension about memes and radical politics. http://canadiandimension.com/articles/5511/ Head out and buy a copy today! Virality, Solidarity and Meme Warfare Max Haiven | September 7th 2013 Of course one can’t really be against memes, because it would do no good. It’s not like they can be voted off the…

ReImagining Money and A People’s Bank (Nocturne 2013)

I’m pleased to announce that I have developed a new webpage for my ReImagining Money project at http://ReImaginingMoney.net. The launch of that website corresponds to the announcement that I will be curating a space/project for this year’s Nocturne Art at Night Festival on October 19. Here is the teaser http://reimaginingmoney.net/exhibition/: A People’s Bank October 19, 2013…

In Wasafiri and Public Books, Interviews with Hari Kunzru

The journal Wasafiri: International Contemporary Writing and the innovative new website Public Books have published different “cuts” my interview with the acclaimed novelist, essayist and literary activist Hari Kunzru. I have long been a fan of Kunzru’s work and was delighted to have the opportunity to sit down with him in the autumn of 2012…

Memory and the Radical Imagination (Against the Grain Interview)

The wonderful radio program Against the Grain is (re)broadcasting a long interview host C.S. Soong conducted with me last year. From the description on their website (http://www.againstthegrain.org/program/762/wed-81413-memory-and-radical-imagination): Global capitalism, far from being only an economic phenomenon, affects and influences how we think, including what and how we think about the past. Max Haiven reveals how…

“Financial Totalitarianism” in Truth-Out [plus video]

Truth-out has published an article where I try and lay out, in as plain terms as possible, the idea of “financialization” as a form of totalitarianism that works on the economic, political, social and cultural levels. Check it out: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16911-financial-totalitarianism-the-economic-political-social-and-cultural-rule-of-speculative-capital Or, you can watch it as a video essay at http://vimeo.com/maxhaiven/financial-totalitarianism And also this interview…