What is the Antifascist Game? (London Symposium, July 11)
Join other players, makers, thinkers and organizers in London on 11 July 2025 for a gathering to debate (anti-)fascism and games
race and racism
Color, corporations and other fictions
An edited version of this essay appeared in a catalogue published to accompany Danish artist Hannibal Andersen’s 2022 exhibition The Abstract Expression of Privatization. In … Read more
Financial capital and ghosts of empire (editorial essay)
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
10 Years of the Radical Imagination podcast mini-series
Ten years ago, Alex Khansnabish and I were putting the finishing touches on a book that would, in 2014, but published by the venerable Zed … Read more
For the refusal of unpayable debts: An artists’ roundtable with Dele Adeyemo, Ahmed Isamaldin, Bahar Noorizadeh, and Gary Zhexi Zhang (JCE)
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
Dreaming together: Artists mobilizing collective dreaming methods for the radical imagination (Capacious)
The following article appeared in 2022 a slightly different form in volume 3.1 of the open-access Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry. It stems from … Read more
Far from Ukraine, Putin’s War Worsens Palm Oil Crisis (Boston Review)
A piece in Boston Review about the imperial history of palm oil, from the transatlantic slave trade to the invasion of Ukraine.
“Revenge Politics, Revenge Economy, Revenge Culture” dossier (Social Text Periscope)
Text, the venerable journal of critical theory, has published a dossier of short pieces on revenge in their online annex, Periscope
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)
Manchester University Press 2023: a collection edited by Paul Gilbert, Clea Bourne, Max Haiven and Johnna Montgomerie for newcomers and specialists alike