Publications

Books

Collections

Digital/Debt/Empire interventions series

Counterspeculations scholarly audiotour of the City of London

Colonial Debts, Extractive Nostalgias, Imperial Insolvencies intervention series

The Financialized Imagination – TOPIA 30/31 (2014)

What is the Radical Imagination? (2011)

Food(&)Sovereignty (2009)

Academic Articles and Book Chapters

“Beyond capitalist authoritarianism, the radical imagination” in We Resist

“Beyond capitalist authoritarianism, the radical imagination” in We Resist

April 24, 2020

“Culture and Financialization: Four Approaches” (2020)

“Culture and Financialization: Four Approaches” (2020)

February 13, 2020

“Art, Money and Financialization: Six Radical Money Artists on Either Side of 1973” (2019)

“Art, Money and Financialization: Six Radical Money Artists on Either Side of 1973” (2019)

July 19, 2019

“The Art of Unpayable Debts” (2019)

“The Art of Unpayable Debts” (2019)

May 8, 2019

Currencies of Exodus: The Hidden Ledger of Proletarian Money Sabotage (2019)

Currencies of Exodus: The Hidden Ledger of Proletarian Money Sabotage (2019)

March 30, 2019

“The Crypt of Art, the Decryption of Money, the Encrypted Common and the Problem of Cryptocurrencies” (2018)

“The Crypt of Art, the Decryption of Money, the Encrypted Common and the Problem of Cryptocurrencies” (2018)

January 22, 2018

The Uses of Financial Literacy (Cultural Politics 2017)

The Uses of Financial Literacy (Cultural Politics 2017)

November 1, 2017

Participatory Art within, against and beyond Financialization (Cultural Studies)

Participatory Art within, against and beyond Financialization (Cultural Studies)

September 3, 2017

“Commons as Actuality, Ethos and Horizon” (2017)

“Commons as Actuality, Ethos and Horizon” (2017)

March 30, 2017

Beyond the Violence of Colonial Civility: The Art of Raven Davis (2017)

Beyond the Violence of Colonial Civility: The Art of Raven Davis (2017)

January 30, 2017

Ghosts and Vagabonds (2016)

Ghosts and Vagabonds (2016)

August 30, 2016

The Commons Against Neoliberalism, the Commons of Neoliberalism, the Commons Beyond Neoliberalism (2016)

The Commons Against Neoliberalism, the Commons of Neoliberalism, the Commons Beyond Neoliberalism (2016)

March 30, 2016

Outside but Along-Side: Stumbling with Social Movements as Academic Activists (2015)

Outside but Along-Side: Stumbling with Social Movements as Academic Activists (2015)

December 10, 2015

Art and Money: Three Aesthetic Strategies in an Age of Financialisation (2015)

Art and Money: Three Aesthetic Strategies in an Age of Financialisation (2015)

June 6, 2015

Money as a Medium of the Imagination: Art and the Currencies of Cooperation (2015)

Money as a Medium of the Imagination: Art and the Currencies of Cooperation (2015)

April 2, 2015

The Creative and the Derivative: Historicizing Creativity under Post-Bretton Woods Financialization (2014)

The Creative and the Derivative: Historicizing Creativity under Post-Bretton Woods Financialization (2014)

February 1, 2014

The Dammed of the Earth: Reading the Mega-Dam for the Political Unconscious of Globalization (2013)

The Dammed of the Earth: Reading the Mega-Dam for the Political Unconscious of Globalization (2013)

December 15, 2013

Between Success and Failure: Dwelling with Social Movements in the Hiatus (2013)

Between Success and Failure: Dwelling with Social Movements in the Hiatus (2013)

November 15, 2013

Walmart, Finance, and the Cultural Politics of Securitization (2013)

Walmart, Finance, and the Cultural Politics of Securitization (2013)

November 1, 2013

Finance Depends on Resistance, Finance Is Resistance, and, Anyway, Resistance Is Futile (2013)

Finance Depends on Resistance, Finance Is Resistance, and, Anyway, Resistance Is Futile (2013)

March 15, 2013

The Metaphoric Wealth of Finance: Or, Capitalism with a Différance (2013)

The Metaphoric Wealth of Finance: Or, Capitalism with a Différance (2013)

January 10, 2013

Convoking the Radical Imagination : Social Movement Research, Dialogic Methodologies, and Scholarly Vocations (2012)

Convoking the Radical Imagination : Social Movement Research, Dialogic Methodologies, and Scholarly Vocations (2012)

July 11, 2012

“Halifax Nocturne versus (?) The Spectacle of Neoliberal Civics” 2012

“Halifax Nocturne versus (?) The Spectacle of Neoliberal Civics” 2012

July 1, 2012

“Can Pikachu Save Fannie Mae? Value, Finance and Imagination in the New Pokeconomy” (2012)

“Can Pikachu Save Fannie Mae? Value, Finance and Imagination in the New Pokeconomy” (2012)

February 1, 2012

Finance as Capital’s Imagination?: Reimagining Value and Culture in an Age of Fictitious Capital and Crisis (2011)

Finance as Capital’s Imagination?: Reimagining Value and Culture in an Age of Fictitious Capital and Crisis (2011)

September 15, 2011

“Privatizing Resistance: AdBusters and the Culture of Neoliberalism” (2007)

“Privatizing Resistance: AdBusters and the Culture of Neoliberalism” (2007)

January 16, 2007

Essays and Interviews

Empires of Pain: A Story of Racism, Opioids and Revenge (graphic novel)

Empires of Pain: A Story of Racism, Opioids and Revenge (graphic novel)

October 24, 2020

“Orcas are not taking nature’s revenge, but we should.” in ROAR

“Orcas are not taking nature’s revenge, but we should.” in ROAR

September 24, 2020

‘Revenge Spending’ Won’t Get Us Out of a Crisis of Racial Capitalism at Novara

‘Revenge Spending’ Won’t Get Us Out of a Crisis of Racial Capitalism at Novara

July 21, 2020

Rising up against white revenge in ROAR

Rising up against white revenge in ROAR

June 3, 2020

“Revenge Fantasy or Avenging Imaginary?” in e-flux

“Revenge Fantasy or Avenging Imaginary?” in e-flux

May 22, 2020

“Capital’s Vengeful Utopia: Unpayable Debts from Above and Below” in L’Internationale

“Capital’s Vengeful Utopia: Unpayable Debts from Above and Below” in L’Internationale

May 15, 2020

“No artist left alive” in Arts of the Working Class

“No artist left alive” in Arts of the Working Class

April 25, 2020

No return to normal: For a post-pandemic liberation (ROAR Magazine plus audio)

No return to normal: For a post-pandemic liberation (ROAR Magazine plus audio)

March 21, 2020

Preparing for Millions to Bury their Smartphones

Preparing for Millions to Bury their Smartphones

November 11, 2019

From anxiety to revolt? Against the financialized university

From anxiety to revolt? Against the financialized university

October 15, 2019

Interview with Max Haiven: Art after Money, Money after Art

Interview with Max Haiven: Art after Money, Money after Art

May 11, 2019

“The Colonial Secrets of Canada’s Most Racist City (ROAR)

“The Colonial Secrets of Canada’s Most Racist City (ROAR)

February 13, 2019

Book review: Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization by Max Haven (Roxanne Dubois)

Book review: Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization by Max Haven (Roxanne Dubois)

November 17, 2018

Book review: Art After Money, Money After Art (Georgios Papadopoulos)

Book review: Art After Money, Money After Art (Georgios Papadopoulos)

November 5, 2018

Art after Money (Open Democracy)

Art after Money (Open Democracy)

October 10, 2018

What is the Fate of Creativity Under Capitalism?

What is the Fate of Creativity Under Capitalism?

October 3, 2018

Political Economy at Art School

Political Economy at Art School

September 4, 2018

RYBN: Psychogeographies of the Financial Imaginary

RYBN: Psychogeographies of the Financial Imaginary

July 13, 2018

Financialization, precarity and reactionary authoritarianism (ROAR)

Financialization, precarity and reactionary authoritarianism (ROAR)

October 16, 2017

“Confronting Financialization Demands a Radical Cultural Politics” in Public Seminar

“Confronting Financialization Demands a Radical Cultural Politics” in Public Seminar

September 8, 2017

A Utopia for Money (Public Seminar)

A Utopia for Money (Public Seminar)

April 27, 2017

An excerpt from the introduction of Cultures of Financialization (2014)

An excerpt from the introduction of Cultures of Financialization (2014)

October 20, 2014

Chronological

Empires of Pain: A Story of Racism, Opioids and Revenge (graphic novel)

October 24, 2020Essays

empire, opioid crisis, opioids, pain, race, racism

“Orcas are not taking nature’s revenge, but we should.” in ROAR

September 24, 2020Essays

ecology, essays, nature, orcas, revenge, revenge capitalism, whales

“Thirteen Theses Toward a Materialist Theory of Revenge Capitalism”

August 31, 2020Articles and chapters

revenge, revenge capitalism

Revenge Capitalism conversation with Marc Garrett (video)

July 23, 2020Interviews, video

interviews, Marc Garrett, RadicalxChange, revenge, revenge capitalism, video

‘Revenge Spending’ Won’t Get Us Out of a Crisis of Racial Capitalism at Novara

July 21, 2020Essays

capitalism, COVID-19, pandemic, popular culture, racism, revenge, revenge capitalism, white supremacy

Rising up against white revenge in ROAR

June 3, 2020Essays

empire, essays, race, racism, revenge, revenge capitalism, United States

“Revenge Fantasy or Avenging Imaginary?” in e-flux

May 22, 2020Essays

avenging imaginary, excerpts, revenge, revenge capitalism

“Capital’s Vengeful Utopia: Unpayable Debts from Above and Below” in L’Internationale

May 15, 2020Essays

capital, capitalism, colonialism, freeports, neoliberalism, revenge, revenge capitalism, utopia, utopianism

Capitalism as Revenge :: Revenge Against Capitalism An Interview with Max Haiven in Socialism and Democracy

May 13, 2020Articles and chapters, Interviews

capitlaism, interviews, revenge, revenge capitalism

“No artist left alive” in Arts of the Working Class

April 25, 2020Essays

art, Art after Money Money after art, artists, COVID-19, creativity, economics, financialization, imagination, pandemic, struggle strategy

“Beyond capitalist authoritarianism, the radical imagination” in We Resist

April 24, 2020Articles and chapters

authoritarianism, capitalism, commons, democracy, fascism, radical imagination, resistance

No return to normal: For a post-pandemic liberation (ROAR Magazine plus audio)

March 21, 2020Audio, Essays, highlight

capitalism, COVID-19, pandemic, revenge, social movements, struggles

“Culture and Financialization: Four Approaches” (2020)

February 13, 2020Articles and chapters

art, art markets, book chapters, culture, film, finance, financialization

Preparing for Millions to Bury their Smartphones

November 11, 2019Essays

art, Children, crisis, death, interview, multi-species, performance, research-creation, technology, University of the Phoenix

From anxiety to revolt? Against the financialized university

October 15, 2019Essays

anxiety, capitalism, financialization, health, sickeness, struggle, students, universities, workers

“Art, Money and Financialization: Six Radical Money Artists on Either Side of 1973” (2019)

July 19, 2019Articles and chapters

aesthetics, art, artists, crisis, financialization, money, radicalism

Interview with Max Haiven: Art after Money, Money after Art

May 11, 2019Essays

art, Art after Money Money after art, art markets, artists, capitalism, contemporary art, creative labour, culture, financialisation, financialization, interview

“The Art of Unpayable Debts” (2019)

May 8, 2019Articles and chapters

art, capitalism, Darren Cullen, debt, documenta, finance, financialization, Greece, Indigenous, Marta Minujin, Rebecca Belmore

Digital/Debt/Empire interventions series

April 19, 2019Collections

abstraction, activism, colonialism, debt, digital media, digital technology, emire, imeprialism, race

Currencies of Exodus: The Hidden Ledger of Proletarian Money Sabotage (2019)

March 30, 2019Articles and chapters

art, book chapters, class, class struggle, financial innovation, money, poverty, proletariat, struggle

“The Colonial Secrets of Canada’s Most Racist City (ROAR)

February 13, 2019Essays

Canada, capitalism, colonialism, racism, Thunder Bay, violence

Book review: Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization by Max Haven (Roxanne Dubois)

November 17, 2018Essays

Art after Money Money after art, reviews

Book review: Art After Money, Money After Art (Georgios Papadopoulos)

November 5, 2018Essays

Art after Money Money after art, reviews

“Representing (and Being Represented in) Financialization’s Derivative Sociality” (2018)

October 17, 2018Articles and chapters

capitalism, derivatives, economics, fianancialization, film, Melanie Gilligan, Randy Martin, sociality, society, theory

Art after Money (Open Democracy)

October 10, 2018Essays

art, Art after Money Money after art, art markets, artists, capitalism, contemporary art, creative labour, culture, financialisation, financialization

What is the Fate of Creativity Under Capitalism?

October 3, 2018Essays

art, Art after Money Money after art, art markets, artists, capitalism, contemporary art, creative labour, culture

Political Economy at Art School

September 4, 2018Essays

art, Art after Money Money after art, art markets, art school, artists, capitalism, contemporary art, creative labour, culture

Colonial Debts, Extractive Nostalgias, Imperial Insolvencies intervention series

September 4, 2018Collections

blogs, collections, colonialism, debt, empire, finance, financialization, ghosts of empire, globalization, imperialism, money, race, racism, real estate, series, Third-world

RYBN: Psychogeographies of the Financial Imaginary

July 13, 2018Essays, Interviews

art, finance, financialization, offshore, RYBN, tax havens

“The Crypt of Art, the Decryption of Money, the Encrypted Common and the Problem of Cryptocurrencies” (2018)

January 22, 2018Articles and chapters

blockchain, capitalism, commons, crypto-currencies, imagination, money, theories of value

The Uses of Financial Literacy (Cultural Politics 2017)

November 1, 2017Articles and chapters

Canada, financial literacy and education, financialization, Indigenous struggles, neoliberalism, race and racism, settler colonialism

Financialization, precarity and reactionary authoritarianism (ROAR)

October 16, 2017Essays

authoritarianism, finance, financialization, reactionary politics

“Confronting Financialization Demands a Radical Cultural Politics” in Public Seminar

September 8, 2017Essays

capitalism, cultural politics, culture, finance, financialization, Public Seminar

Wars on social reproduction: On feminism, the commons, and joyful militancy (interview with Silvia Federici)

September 3, 2017Interviews

commons, feminism, interviews, radical imagination, reproduction, Siliva Federici

Be Prepared to Win: Indigenous Struggles and the Radical Imagination (Interview with Sherry Pictou))

September 3, 2017Interviews

capitalism, Indigenous struggles, Nova Scotia, radical imagination

Participatory Art within, against and beyond Financialization (Cultural Studies)

September 3, 2017Articles and chapters

Abbie Hoffman, art, Axel Stockburger, finance, financialization, markets, money, parasitism, participatory culture, Robin Hood Minor Asset, technology, Yippies

A Utopia for Money (Public Seminar)

April 27, 2017Essays

art, Art after Money Money after art, art market, capitalism, finance, financialization, freeports, money, utopia

“Commons as Actuality, Ethos and Horizon” (2017)

March 30, 2017Articles and chapters

book chapter, commoning, commons, enclosure, radical imagination, theory

Beyond the Violence of Colonial Civility: The Art of Raven Davis (2017)

January 30, 2017Articles and chapters

art, civility, colonialism, empire, imagination, race, racism, settler colonialism, violence

Ghosts and Vagabonds (2016)

August 30, 2016Articles and chapters

art, capitalism, consumerism, homelessness, photography, poverty

The Commons Against Neoliberalism, the Commons of Neoliberalism, the Commons Beyond Neoliberalism (2016)

March 30, 2016Articles and chapters

capitalism, commoning, commons, enclosure, ideology, neoliberalism

Outside but Along-Side: Stumbling with Social Movements as Academic Activists (2015)

December 10, 2015Articles and chapters

academic activism, neoliberalism, radical imagination, social change, social movement research, social movements, social reproduction, solidarity research

Art and Money: Three Aesthetic Strategies in an Age of Financialisation (2015)

June 6, 2015Articles and chapters

abstraction, aesthetic strategy, art, finance capital, financialisation, financialization, mediation, money, representation

Money as a Medium of the Imagination: Art and the Currencies of Cooperation (2015)

April 2, 2015Articles and chapters

art, artists, bills, coins, commons, creativity, credit, debt, money

An excerpt from the introduction of Cultures of Financialization (2014)

October 20, 2014Essays

culturesoffinancialization

The Creative and the Derivative: Historicizing Creativity under Post-Bretton Woods Financialization (2014)

February 1, 2014Articles and chapters

art, capitalism, cities, creative labour, creativity, finance, financialization, globalization, imagination

The Dammed of the Earth: Reading the Mega-Dam for the Political Unconscious of Globalization (2013)

December 15, 2013Articles and chapters

art, book chapter, capitalism, dams, eco-crticism, ecology, film, gloablization, popular culture, water

Between Success and Failure: Dwelling with Social Movements in the Hiatus (2013)

November 15, 2013Articles and chapters

failure, protest, radical imagination, social movements, success

Walmart, Finance, and the Cultural Politics of Securitization (2013)

November 1, 2013Articles and chapters

capitalism, data, finance, financialization, retail, risk management, securitization, security, Walmart

Networks, Finance Capital and the Fate of the Novel (interview with Hari Kunzru)

August 19, 2013Interviews

art, digital technology, economics, fiction, finance capital, financialization, Hari Kunzru, interviews, literature, novels

Finance Depends on Resistance, Finance Is Resistance, and, Anyway, Resistance Is Futile (2013)

March 15, 2013Articles and chapters

capitalism, debt, finance, financialization, financiers, mortgages, neoliberalism, poverty, resistance, social movements, speculation

The Metaphoric Wealth of Finance: Or, Capitalism with a Différance (2013)

January 10, 2013Articles and chapters

capitalism, finance, financialization, metaphor

Convoking the Radical Imagination : Social Movement Research, Dialogic Methodologies, and Scholarly Vocations (2012)

July 11, 2012Articles and chapters

methology, radical imagination, radicalism, social movements

“Halifax Nocturne versus (?) The Spectacle of Neoliberal Civics” 2012

July 1, 2012Articles and chapters

art, civics, creative economy, creativity, festivals, Halifax, neoliberalism, public art, urban space

“Can Pikachu Save Fannie Mae? Value, Finance and Imagination in the New Pokeconomy” (2012)

February 1, 2012Articles and chapters

children's culture, cultural studies, finance, financialization, imagination, Pokemon

Finance as Capital’s Imagination?: Reimagining Value and Culture in an Age of Fictitious Capital and Crisis (2011)

September 15, 2011Articles and chapters

capitalism, finance capital, financialization, imagination, Marxism, neoliberalism, radical imagination, value

What is the Radical Imagination? (2011)

January 13, 2011Collections

activism, anarchism, art, dance, feminism, gentrification, imagination, Indigenous struggles, protest, radical imagination, radicalism, social movements, surveillance, technology, urban space

Food(&)Sovereignty (2009)

October 1, 2010Collections

activism, capitalism, corporations, food, social movements, sovereignty, struggles

“Privatizing Resistance: AdBusters and the Culture of Neoliberalism” (2007)

January 16, 2007Articles and chapters

AdBusters, advertising, aesthetics, art, capitalism, neoliberalism