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A review of J. Lorand Matory’s The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud and the Gods Black People Make (Journal of Cultural Economy)

April 29, 2022July 2, 2021

This review of Review: J. Lorand Matory’s The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud and the Gods Black People Make will appear later this year in the … Read more

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags book reviews, colonialism and empire, race and racism, theory

Our Wrecks of the Medusa: A Dialogue

March 9, 2021January 24, 2021

Phanuel Antwi and I prepared this dialogue for publication by Ramallah’s AM Qattan Foundation in their ebook Isolation, Separation and Quarantine: More than a Pandemic, … Read more

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags art, colonialism and empire, pandemic, race and racism

Empires of Pain: A Story of Racism, Opioids and Revenge (graphic novel)

June 9, 2021October 24, 2020

It is my great pleasure to present “Empires of Pain: A story of Racism, Opioids and Revenge,” a short 15-page web-comic I produced along with … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags colonialism and empire, culture, graphic novel, opioid crisis, race and racism

Rising up against white revenge (ROAR Magazine)

April 29, 2022June 3, 2020

ROAR Magazine has published a short essay I wrote “Rising up against white revenge.” The current uprisings reveal that America is haunted by the reality … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags race and racism, revenge, social movements

In conversation with Phanuel Antwi about Revenge Capitalism

December 19, 2021May 8, 2020

I was thrilled to talk with my friend Dr. Phanuel Antwi about my new book Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, … Read more

Categories Audio and videoTags colonialism and empire, race and racism, revenge

The Politics of the Opioid Crisis on KPFA’s Against the Grain (audio)

March 9, 2021March 9, 2020

I was pleased to have an opportunity to talk through some of the themes in a chapter titled “Our Opium Wars Pain, race, and the … Read more

Categories Audio and videoTags colonialism and empire, opioid crisis, race and racism

Digital/Debt/Empire interventions series

March 9, 2021April 19, 2019

In the lead up to the Digital/Debt/Empire gathering in April 2019 Public Seminar, the online platform of the New School for Social Research, hosted a … Read more

Categories Edited CollectionsTags colonialism and empire, debt, financialization, race and racism

The Colonial Secrets of Canada’s Most Racist City

December 19, 2021February 13, 2019

This essay, published in ROAR Magazine, explores the deep colonial roots of anti-Indigenous racist violence in the city of Thunder Bay. Original: https://roarmag.org/essays/colonial-secrets-canadas-racist-city/

Categories Public EssaysTags Canada, colonialism and empire, race and racism

“Our Opium Wars: The Ghosts of Empire in the Prescription Opioid Nightmare” in Third Text (audio)

March 9, 2021February 1, 2019

The journal Third Text has published a short essay titled “Our Opium Wars The Ghosts of Empire in the Prescription Opioid Nightmare” (v.32, i.5-6, it … Read more

Categories Audio and videoTags colonialism and empire, opioid crisis, race and racism

Our Opium Wars: Our Opium Wars The Ghosts of Empire in the Prescription Opioid Nightmare

January 2, 2022February 1, 2019

Citation Haiven, Max. 2019. “Our Opium Wars: The Ghosts of Empire in the Prescription Opioid Nightmare.” Third Text 32 (5-6): 662-669. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2018.1559169 Abstract The prescription … Read more

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags colonialism and empire, opioid crisis, race and racism
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