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An ‘anxiety epidemic’ in the financialized university: Critical questions and unexpected resistance (Cultural Politics)

December 29, 2022August 8, 2022

This article, written be me and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, has appeared in the 18th volume of the journal Cultural Politics. Financialization is transforming social subjects and … Read more

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags education, financialization, mental health, neoliberalism, social movements

Dreaming together: Artists mobilizing collective dreaming methods for the radical imagination (Capacious)

June 29, 2022June 17, 2022

The following article will appear in the online, open-access Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry later in 2022 in a slightly different form. It stems … Read more

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags dreams and dreaming, race and racism, social movements, the radical imagination

Dangerous Play in an age of Technofinance (TOPIA)

June 3, 2022June 3, 2022

The following text, which has not yet been copyedited or proofed, was co-authored by Max Haiven, AT Kingsmith and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and is forthcoming in … Read more

Categories Academic Articles and Chapters, games and gamification and playTags conspiracies and conspiracy theories, financialization, social movements

Is Amazon the Borg? We Asked Their Workers (LA Review of Books)

May 6, 2022May 7, 2022

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

Categories Public EssaysTags Amazon, imagination, social movements

A reflection on the radical imagination: From finance to social movements to games (Junkyard)

April 29, 2022April 27, 2022

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

Categories Public EssaysTags financialization, imagination, social movements

Wages of Dreamwork, Wages for Dreamwork (transmediale)

April 29, 2022December 21, 2021

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

Categories Audio and videoTags art, colonialism and empire, dreams and dreaming, social movements

Our age of uprisings (ROAR Magazine)

April 29, 2022December 15, 2021

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

Categories Public EssaysTags imagination, social movements

“Is Marx still a threat?” Extrablatt (Arts of the Working Class)

April 29, 2022December 11, 2021

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

Categories Edited CollectionsTags social movements, theory

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

Revenge Fantasy or Avenging Imaginary? (e-flux)

April 29, 2022May 22, 2020

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

Categories Public EssaysTags revenge, social movements, theory
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