A podcast, audio-tour and blog series about finance and the imagination, organized and curated by Max Haiven and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou in collaboration with the UCL Urban Lab
Tag: imagination
Art After Money, Money After Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization
Available now from Pluto Press (dist. UChicago in US, BTL in Canada)
Navigating finance and the imagination in the City of London – a walking assembly (April 14)
A collaborative walking tour on finance and the imagination of the City of London, in the spirit of Cornelius Castoriadis.
Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power
My book “Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power: Capitalism, Creativity and the Commons”, published in March 2014 by Zed Books and Fernwood Publishing
“Finance as Capital’s Imagination” published in Social Text
My article “Finance as Capital’s Imagination?: Reimagining Value and Culture in an Age of Fictitious Capital and Crisis” has been published in the journal Social Text (29.3/108, pp. 93-124. You can find it here. The abstract: This essay seeks to contribute to the theoretical groundwork for a cultural studies of finance by recasting a Marxist…
New polemic essay: Undead Ideologies: Necro-Neoliberalism, Necro-Keynesianism and the Radical Imagination
My new polemic essay, titled “Undead Ideologies: Necro-Neoliberalism, Necro-Keynesianism and the Radical Imagination” is now posted at Znet (http://www.zcommunications.org/undead-ideologies-necro-neoliberalism-necro-keynesianism-and-the-radical-imagination-by-max-haiven). Here is the introductory paragraph: The 2008 financial crisis has left us bereft of any meaningful mainstream political imagination. Indeed, the political spectrum today appears like a preposterous zombie film, with undead ideologies shambling across the…
