From financialization to 21st century fascisms (For Magazine)
The following essay was published in June 2026 in the 13th issue of For Magazine. To understand the shocking and dangerous rise of extreme-right politics … Read more
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Capitalism Cheats (Finance & Society)
The following essay will appear in a forthcoming issue of Finance and Society Capitalism cheats: Three moments of normalized swindling Max HaivenCanada Research Chair in … Read more
It’s all a Game, and the Game is Deadly Real (Making & Breaking)
For the Spring 2025 issue of Making & Breaking, I’ve offered a snapshot of some of the ideas from my forthcoming book The Player and the Played: Gamification, Financialization and (anti-)Fascism.
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
Fascist Dreams, Antifascist Awakenings (study workshop – 25-29 May)
Join Max Haiven and Sarah Stein Lubrano May 25-29 for a study workshop in Palermo
Capitalism’s sacrifice of humanity
A 3-part podcast mini-series produced in collaboration with Free City Radio
Care as Revenge, Revenge as Care: Two Riddles
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
From financialization to derivative fascisms (Social Text)
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
“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