Amazon Archives - Max Haiven

There is a world after Amazon, or the radical joy and need to imagine together (interview)

February 7, 2025September 26, 2024

An interview about the Worker as Futurist project and its edited collection, The World After Amazon: Stories from Amazon Workers

Amazon as dystopian world-builder (and its enemies) – Cyberflaneur

September 25, 2024September 13, 2024

What is the power of corporate storytelling today, especially storytelling about the future, particularly in the hands of firms like Amazon with the power to radically transform life as we know it? And what does this power imply for the struggle of workers and communities not only to defend their rights in the here-and-now, but to reclaim the right to determine the shape of the future?

The World After Amazon: Stories from Amazon Workers

September 4, 2024September 4, 2024

9 short stories from rank-and-file Amazon workers about the World After Amazon, available in print, online and as a podcast/audiobook

Writing Back Against Amazon’s Empire (Triple-C)

May 2, 2024March 10, 2024

A copy-edited version of the following paper, “Writing Back Against Amazon’s Empire: Science Fiction, Corporate Storytelling, and the Dignity of the Workers’ Word,” by Max … Read more

Amazon Workers’ Sci-Fi Writing Is Imagining a World After Amazon

September 7, 2023September 7, 2023

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos often talks about humanity starting again on other planets. But a new project funding Amazon workers’ sci-fi writing is imagining how life could be different right here on Earth, in a world without corporate overlords like Bezos.