Capitalism Cheats (Finance & Society)
A cleaned-up version of this paper will appear in Finance and Society Capitalism Cheats: Three Moments of Normalized Swindling Max Haiven, Canada Research Chair in … Read more
colonialism and empire
Capitalism’s sacrifice of humanity
A 3-part podcast mini-series produced in collaboration with Free City Radio
Color, corporations and other fictions
An edited version of this essay appeared in a catalogue published to accompany Danish artist Hannibal Andersen’s 2022 exhibition The Abstract Expression of Privatization. In … Read more
Financial capital and ghosts of empire (editorial essay)
The following text was published in January 2024 and is the editorial introduction to a special section of the Journal of Cultural Economy on Finance … Read more
Sacrifice (Finance Aesthetics)
An edited version of the following text will be published in 2024 as part of Goldsmiths Press’s Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary, edited by Frederik … Read more
For the refusal of unpayable debts: An artists’ roundtable with Dele Adeyemo, Ahmed Isamaldin, Bahar Noorizadeh, and Gary Zhexi Zhang (JCE)
The following roundtable, presented here in preliminary, unedited form, will be published in a special issue of The Journal of Cultural Economy on the topic … Read more
CBC interview on Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire and other interviews and reviews
Last month, my book Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire was published by Pluto Books. Since then a number of interviews and reviews have come … Read more
Far from Ukraine, Putin’s War Worsens Palm Oil Crisis (Boston Review)
A piece in Boston Review about the imperial history of palm oil, from the transatlantic slave trade to the invasion of Ukraine.
“Revenge Politics, Revenge Economy, Revenge Culture” dossier (Social Text Periscope)
Text, the venerable journal of critical theory, has published a dossier of short pieces on revenge in their online annex, Periscope
Notes towards a theory of risk management as human sacrifice (and vice versa) (Schemas of Uncertainty)
An essay on racial capitalism, empire and the gory capitalist cosmology