Capitalism Cheats (Finance & Society)
A cleaned-up version of this paper will appear in Finance and Society Capitalism Cheats: Three Moments of Normalized Swindling Max Haiven, Canada Research Chair in … Read more
race and racism
What are antifascist games? (CFP)
In many places around the world, the fascist threat is rising. Far right, neonationalist and ultra-conservative parties, politicians, and pundits have taken advantage of growing … Read more
Towards a theory of the playgrom: Deep and dark playbor and the work of fascism (Media Theory)
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”
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
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.