The Player and the Played: Max Haiven in Conversation with Rudolf Inderst New Books in Game Studies (New Books Network). Recorded September 22, 2026. Rudolf … Read more
The following essay was published in June 2026 in the 13th issue of For Magazine. To understand the shocking and dangerous rise of extreme-right politics … Read more
The following essay will appear in a forthcoming issue of Finance and Society Capitalism cheats: Three moments of normalized swindling Max HaivenCanada Research Chair in … Read more
An article for Media Theory about playgroms: “an idiom of fascistic mob violence that emerges within but that also exceeds a digitalized, financialized and gamified mode of capitalism”
An Unconventional London Symposium on Financialisation and Truth-bending
It has been a treat to work with the wonderful Weird Economies project on a new 10-episode podcast, “The Exploits of Play,” which will be … Read more
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
A slightly updated version of this article has been published in Social Text 155 (2023): https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10383207 Abstract The last 40 years of financialization has laid … Read more
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
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