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CBC interview on Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire and other interviews and reviews

May 29, 2022May 29, 2022

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

Categories InterviewsTags colonialism and empire, imagination, Palm Oil

Far from Ukraine, Putin’s War Worsens Palm Oil Crisis (Boston Review)

April 29, 2022April 27, 2022

A piece in Boston Review about the imperial history of palm oil, from the transatlantic slave trade to the invasion of Ukraine.

Categories Public EssaysTags colonialism and empire, Palm Oil, race and racism

“Revenge Politics, Revenge Economy, Revenge Culture” dossier (Social Text Periscope)

April 29, 2022April 22, 2022

Text, the venerable journal of critical theory, has published a dossier of short pieces on revenge in their online annex, Periscope

Categories Edited CollectionsTags colonialism and empire, culture, imagination, race and racism, revenge, theory

Notes towards a theory of risk management as human sacrifice (and vice versa) (Schemas of Uncertainty)

December 29, 2022April 21, 2022

An essay on racial capitalism, empire and the gory capitalist cosmology

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags colonialism and empire, financialization, race and racism, theory

Entangled Legacies: Race, finance and inequality (Manchester University Press)

November 18, 2022March 17, 2022

Coming in December 2022 from Manchester University Press, a collection edited by Paul Gilbert, Clea Bourne, Max Haiven and Johnna Montgomerie for newcomers and specialists alike

Categories Edited CollectionsTags colonialism and empire, financialization, race and racism

Wages of Dreamwork, Wages for Dreamwork (transmediale)

April 29, 2022December 21, 2021

Original: https://transmediale.de/almanac/wages-for-dreamwork In 1838, Louis Daguerre captured a streetscape including a Parisian shoe-shiner at work, in what is said to be the first photograph of … Read more

Categories Audio and videoTags art, colonialism and empire, dreams and dreaming, social movements

A review of J. Lorand Matory’s The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud and the Gods Black People Make (Journal of Cultural Economy)

April 29, 2022July 2, 2021

This review of Review: J. Lorand Matory’s The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud and the Gods Black People Make will appear later this year in the … Read more

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags book reviews, colonialism and empire, race and racism, theory

Revenge capitalism and the drug war (The Brief podcast)

April 29, 2022February 3, 2021

I was interviewed by  the fascinating Podcast The Brief about the opioids crisis and revenge politics. It’s available here: http://thebriefpodcast.com/revenge-capitalism-the-drug-war/

Categories Audio and videoTags colonialism and empire, opioid crisis

Settler Capitalist Multiculturalism, Indigenous Refusal, and the Spectre of Bankruptcy: Rebecca Belmore’s Gone Indian

January 2, 2022February 2, 2021

Haiven, Max. 2020. “Settler Capitalist Multiculturalism, Indigenous Refusal, and the Spectre of Bankruptcy: Rebecca Belmore’s Gone Indian.” in The Aesthetics of Ambiguity: Understanding and Addressing … Read more

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags art, Canada, colonialism and empire, financialization

Our Wrecks of the Medusa: A Dialogue

March 9, 2021January 24, 2021

Phanuel Antwi and I prepared this dialogue for publication by Ramallah’s AM Qattan Foundation in their ebook Isolation, Separation and Quarantine: More than a Pandemic, … Read more

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags art, colonialism and empire, pandemic, race and racism
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