Our Wrecks of the Medusa: A Dialogue
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
colonialism and empire
Empires of Pain: A Story of Racism, Opioids and Revenge (graphic novel)
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
In conversation with Phanuel Antwi about Revenge Capitalism
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
The Politics of the Opioid Crisis on KPFA’s Against the Grain (audio)
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
Digital/Debt/Empire interventions series
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
The Colonial Secrets of Canada’s Most Racist City
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/
“Our Opium Wars: The Ghosts of Empire in the Prescription Opioid Nightmare” in Third Text (audio)
The journal Third Text has published a short essay titled “Our Opium Wars The Ghosts of Empire in the Prescription Opioid Nightmare” (v.32, i.5-6, it … Read more
Our Opium Wars: Our Opium Wars The Ghosts of Empire in the Prescription Opioid Nightmare
Citation Haiven, Max. 2019. “Our Opium Wars: The Ghosts of Empire in the Prescription Opioid Nightmare.” Third Text 32 (5-6): 662-669. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2018.1559169 Abstract The prescription … Read more
Colonial Debts, Extractive Nostalgias, Imperial Insolvencies intervention series
In September 2018 the UK-based scholarly online platform Discover Society published a short selection of texts edited by Clea Bourne, Paul Gilbert, Max Haiven and … Read more
Be Prepared to Win: Indigenous Struggles and the Radical Imagination (Interview with Sherry Pictou))
I interviewed my friend and colleague Sherry Pictou for a collection that Alex Khasnabish and I edited titled What Moves Us: The Lives and Times … Read more