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colonialism and empire

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

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

June 9, 2021October 24, 2020

It is my great pleasure to present “Empires of Pain: A story of Racism, Opioids and Revenge,” a short 15-page web-comic I produced along with … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags colonialism and empire, culture, graphic novel, opioid crisis, race and racism

In conversation with Phanuel Antwi about Revenge Capitalism

December 19, 2021May 8, 2020

I was thrilled to talk with my friend Dr. Phanuel Antwi about my new book Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, … Read more

Categories Audio and videoTags colonialism and empire, race and racism, revenge

The Politics of the Opioid Crisis on KPFA’s Against the Grain (audio)

March 9, 2021March 9, 2020

I was pleased to have an opportunity to talk through some of the themes in a chapter titled “Our Opium Wars Pain, race, and the … Read more

Categories Audio and videoTags colonialism and empire, opioid crisis, race and racism

Digital/Debt/Empire interventions series

March 9, 2021April 19, 2019

In the lead up to the Digital/Debt/Empire gathering in April 2019 Public Seminar, the online platform of the New School for Social Research, hosted a … Read more

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

The Colonial Secrets of Canada’s Most Racist City

December 19, 2021February 13, 2019

This essay, published in ROAR Magazine, explores the deep colonial roots of anti-Indigenous racist violence in the city of Thunder Bay. Original: https://roarmag.org/essays/colonial-secrets-canadas-racist-city/

Categories Public EssaysTags Canada, colonialism and empire, race and racism
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