A reflection on the radical imagination: From finance to social movements to games (Junkyard)
A reflection on how I came to be fascinated by the power of the imagination for The Junkyard: A scholarly blog devoted to the study of imagination
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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
Entangled Legacies: Race, finance and inequality (Manchester University Press)
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
I Dream of DeFi: A Conversation (Flash Art)
Original –> https://flash—art.com/2021/01/defi-decentralization-crypto-art/ I Dream of DeFi. A Conversation with Ruth Catlow, Max Grünberg, Max Haiven, Aude Launay, and Denise Thwaites, curated by Alex Estorick … Read more
Financialization and failure: Lessons from the anxious university (Cultural Politics)
The following is the uncorrected text for a chapter in the forthcoming Routledge International Handbook of Failure: Critical Perspectives from Sociology and other Social Sciences, … Read more
Debt and Financialization of Childhood (Oxford Bibliographies)
The following text is a not-yet copy-edited draft of Max Haiven. 2022 (in production). “Debt and Financialization of Childhood” in Oxford Bibliographies in Childhood Studies, … Read more
Whither Harmony Square?: Conspiracy Games in Late Capitalism (LA Review of Books)
The following piece by Conspiracy Games and Countergames reseachers Max Haiven, A. T. Kingsmith and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou was printed in the Los Angeles Review of … Read more
Should Artists ‘Take the Money and Run’? (Art Review)
The following is a preliminary version of the text published on October 6, 2021 in ArtReview: https://artreview.com/should-artists-take-the-money-and-run-jens-haaning/ The mainstream news cycle is forever doomed to … Read more
An ‘anxiety epidemic’ in the financialized university: Critical questions and unexpected resistance (Cultural Politics)
This article, written be me and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, will appear in the journal Cultural Politics later in 2021. Financialization, the economic, political, social and cultural … Read more
Was the GameStop frenzy an artwork? (Hyperallergic)
This essay originally appeared in HyperAllergic –> https://hyperallergic.com/624288/was-the-gamestop-frenzy-an-artwork/ Was the GameStop scandal some kind of massive, participatory activist artwork? In late January and early February … Read more