Is Amazon the Borg? We Asked Their Workers (LA Review of Books)
This essay was published in the Los Angeles Review of Books on May 7, 2022. Is Amazon the Borg? We Asked Their Workers By Max … Read more
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A reflection on the radical imagination: From finance to social movements to games (Junkyard)
A reflection on how I came to be fascinated by the power of the imagination for The Junkyard: A scholarly blog devoted to the study of imagination
Wages of Dreamwork, Wages for Dreamwork (transmediale)
Original: https://transmediale.de/almanac/wages-for-dreamwork In 1838, Louis Daguerre captured a streetscape including a Parisian shoe-shiner at work, in what is said to be the first photograph of … Read more
Our age of uprisings (ROAR Magazine)
I’m very pleased to have contributed a framing article to the ROAR Magazine special issue MOBILIZE!, Published on 15 December 2021. The original can be … Read more
“Is Marx still a threat?” Extrablatt (Arts of the Working Class)
In February of 2022, the German Historical Museum in Berlin will open an exhibition on “Karl Marx and Capitalism.” They asked the Berlin-based bimonthly newspaper … Read more
An ‘anxiety epidemic’ in the financialized university: Critical questions and unexpected resistance (Cultural Politics)
This article, written be me and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, will appear in the journal Cultural Politics later in 2021. Financialization, the economic, political, social and cultural … Read more
Rising up against white revenge (ROAR Magazine)
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
Revenge Fantasy or Avenging Imaginary? (e-flux)
E-Flux has published an edited excerpt from my book Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts. … Read more
No return to normal: For a post-pandemic liberation
Original at: https://roarmag.org/essays/no-return-to-normal-for-a-post-pandemic-liberation/ Spanish translation: http://comunizar.com.ar/sin-retorno-la-normalidad-una-liberacion-poscoronavirus/ The following is a postscript to Max Haiven’s Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and … Read more
Currencies of Exodus: The Hidden Ledger of Proletarian Money Sabotage
Citation Haiven, Max. 2019. “Currencies of the Undercommons: The Hidden Ledger of Proletarian Money Sabotage.” In State Machines: Reflections and Actions at the Edge of … Read more