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Care as Revenge, Revenge as Care: Two Riddles

August 25, 2023August 25, 2023

This short text will appear in Thick Press‘s An Encyclopedia of Radical Helping, due out in 2024. 1. First: Under what conditions could care be … Read more

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From financialization to derivative fascisms (Social Text)

June 23, 2023June 22, 2023

A slightly updated version of this article has been published in Social Text 155 (2023): https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10383207 Abstract The last 40 years of financialization has laid … Read more

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags financialization, imagination, revenge, theory

“Revenge Politics, Revenge Economy, Revenge Culture” dossier (Social Text Periscope)

April 29, 2022April 22, 2022

Text, the venerable journal of critical theory, has published a dossier of short pieces on revenge in their online annex, Periscope

Categories Edited CollectionsTags colonialism and empire, culture, imagination, race and racism, revenge, theory

Whither Harmony Square?: Conspiracy Games in Late Capitalism (LA Review of Books)

March 16, 2023November 14, 2021

The following piece by Conspiracy Games and Countergames reseachers Max Haiven, A. T. Kingsmith and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou was printed in the Los Angeles Review of … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags conspiracies and conspiracy theories, financialization, games, revenge

Revenge Against Revenge: Biden’s Revenge Politics and “The Cure at Troy” (LA Review of Books)

April 29, 2022March 8, 2021

This essay first appeared on March 8, 2021 in The Los Angeles Review of Books: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/revenge-against-revenge-bidens-revenge-politics-and-the-cure-at-troy/ An audio version can be found here. WITH JOE … Read more

Categories Audio and video, Public EssaysTags literature, revenge, United States

Was the GameStop frenzy an artwork? (Hyperallergic)

April 29, 2022February 25, 2021

This essay originally appeared in HyperAllergic –> https://hyperallergic.com/624288/was-the-gamestop-frenzy-an-artwork/ Was the GameStop scandal some kind of massive, participatory activist artwork? In late January and early February … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags art, financialization, revenge

The GameStop saga is not the revenge against finance we deserve (Novara)

April 29, 2022February 3, 2021

My essay “The GameStop Saga Is Not the Revenge Against Finance We Deserve” has been published by Truthout here: https://truthout.org/audio/the-gamestop-saga-is-not-the-revenge-against-finance-we-deserve/ “There’s a catharsis to actually … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags financialization, imagination, revenge

Unraveling capitalism’s revenge: An interview (ROAR Magazine)

April 29, 2022November 26, 2020

The following interview, conducted by Liam Hough, appeared in ROAR 0n 26 November 2020: https://roarmag.org/essays/max-haiven-revenge-capitalism-interview/

Read moreUnraveling capitalism’s revenge: An interview (ROAR Magazine)

Categories InterviewsTags financialization, revenge

Orcas are not taking nature’s revenge, but we should (ROAR Magazine)

April 29, 2022September 24, 2020

My essay on endangered whales attacking boats in the Strait of Gibraltar has been published by ROAR Magazine here and below. Here is also an … Read more

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Thirteen Theses Toward a Materialist Theory of Revenge Capitalism

March 9, 2021August 31, 2020

My short essay, “Thirteen Theses Toward a Materialist Theory of Revenge Capitalism,” has appeared in a new edited collection: Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left … Read more

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags revenge, theory
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