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“Finance as Capital’s Imagination” published in Social Text
My article “Finance as Capital’s Imagination?: Reimagining Value and Culture in an Age of Fictitious Capital and Crisis” has been published in the journal Social Text (29.3/108, pp. 93-124. You can...
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New article in FUSE: “Creativity (Pre-)Occupied”
My article “Creativity (Pre-)Occuppied“, about the struggles around and through creativity in the Occupy Movements, has been published by FUSE Magazine an amazing publication based in Toronto. The...
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“The Financial Crisis as a Crisis of the Imagination” appears in Cultural Logic
Cultural Logic has published a piece I wrote titled “The Financial Crisis as a Crisis of the Imagination.” The journal is free and open access online, and available here: The piece makes this basic...
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Article on financialization, Pokémon and agency appears in Cultural Studies
My article “Can Pikachu Save Fannie Mae?: Value, finance and imagination in the new Pokéconomy” has appeared in the journal Cultural Studies, or at least the online “forthcoming articles” section of...
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Metaphoric Wealth and The Crisis of the Imagination
1. Continuum Press has posted the details of a collection edited by Todd Dufresne and Carla Sacchetti titled The Economy as Cultural System, due out in November...
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Editing a special issue of TOPIA on “The Financialized Imagination and Beyond”
I will be co-editing a special issue of the journal TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (no. 29, Fall 2013) with the inestimable Jody Berland. The call for papers (Click here for PDF – TOPIA –...
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“Finance Depends on Resistance, Finance is Resistance and, anyway, Resistance...
My article “Finance Depends on Resistance, Finance is Resistance and, anyway, Resistance is Futile” has appeared in a special issue of the journal Mediations: Journal of the Marxist Literary Group on...
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BOOK: “Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture...
I’m delighted to announce that by first monograph Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014. I’m working on...
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The Art and Money Project: Exploring the Nexus of Creativity and Capitalism
The fine folks over at Art Threat have graciously published this illustrated Q&A with me about the Art and Money Project. Check it out: http://artthreat.net/2013/06/art-money-project-max-haiven/...
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On Financialization – radio interview on Against the Grain
KPFA's Against the Grain has broadcast an hour-long feature interview with me on the topic of financialization. http://www.againstthegrain.org/program/944/mon-60914-financializations-reach
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“Money as a medium of the Imagination” in the MoneyLab Reader
My chapter "Money as a Medium of the Imagination: Art and the Currencies of Cooperation" has been published in the MoneyLab Reader from the Institute for Network Cultures.
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A short essay on Futures (2013) by Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge
I wrote the following short essay to accompany Carol Condé and Karl Beveridge's exhibition'Scene Otherwise' at the Khyber Centre for the Arts in Halifax April 17th - May 13th, 2015 (organized by...
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On borders, financialization, movement and the imagination
Borders and money are conjoined technologies of the weaponized imagination rooted in colonialism and racial capitalism.
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Coming of Age in the Financialized Pokéconomy
In recognition of the Pokémon franchise with the release of the augmented reality game Pokémon Go, I thought I'd share "Play: Coming of Age in the Speculative Pokéconomy," a chapter from my 2014 book...
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Autumn 2016: Seville, Berlin, London, Amsterdam and the University of the...
This autumn I’m in Europe for a few conferences, and also working on one book about art and money and one book about… a secret topic. A few ongoing and upcoming events I’m participating in: Sept 28-29,...
View ArticleColonial debts, extractive nostalgias, imperial insolvencies – Reimagining...
Join us at Goldsmiths, University of London, September 22-23 for a two-day gathering on the theme of "Colonial debts, extractive nostalgias, imperial insolvencies – Reimagining financialization"
View ArticleTowards a materialist theory of revenge: The lives of Witches (Vagabonds 001)
I'm very pleased to announce my essay Towards a materialist theory of revenge: The lives of Witches is the first in a new series of peer-reviewed working papers, VAGABONDS, which I edit under the...
View Article“Participatory art within, against and beyond financialization” appears in...
After a lengthy wait my article "Participatory art within, against and beyond financialization: Benign pessimism, tactical parasitics and the encrypted common" has been published by the journal...
View ArticleCultures of Financialization out in paperback
Excerpts and radio interviews on the occasion of the paperback edition of my book on "Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life"
View ArticleNavigating finance and the imagination in the City of London – a walking...
A collaborative walking tour on finance and the imagination of the City of London, in the spirit of Cornelius Castoriadis.
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