Borders and money are conjoined technologies of the weaponized imagination rooted in colonialism and racial capitalism.
Tag: politics
CD: Virality, Solidarity and Meme Warfare
Here’s a short article I wrote for Canadian Dimension about memes and radical politics. http://canadiandimension.com/articles/5511/ Head out and buy a copy today! Virality, Solidarity and Meme Warfare Max Haiven | September 7th 2013 Of course one can’t really be against memes, because it would do no good. It’s not like they can be voted off the…
BOOK: “Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life” to be published by Palgrave Macmillan (2014)
I’m delighted to announce that by first monograph Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014. I’m working on completing the manuscript now, but a tentative table of contents is as follows: Introduction 1. Reproducing Fictitious Capital 2. Precariousness: Two Models of Social Liquidation…
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…
