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• 10 Years of the Radical Imagination podcast mini-series
• the radical imagination
• Why play games with conspiracies? (ephemera)
• Amazon Workers’ Sci-Fi Writing Is Imagining a World After Amazon
• Care as Revenge, Revenge as Care: Two Riddles
• Mobilizing Hearts and Minds (free course, fall 2023)
• The Workers’ Speculative Society podcast
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• From financialization to derivative fascisms (Social Text)
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• Sacrifice (Finance Aesthetics)
• Board games as social media: Towards an enchanted inquiry of digital capitalism
• Clue-Anon, gaming conspiracy, and the anti-authoritarian imagination
• authoritarianism
• For the refusal of unpayable debts: An artists’ roundtable with Dele Adeyemo, Ahmed Isamaldin, Bahar Noorizadeh, and Gary Zhexi Zhang (JCE)
• Anxiety and self-sabotage in the neoliberal university
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• Launching: Worker as Futurist, an SF group for Amazon workers
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• An interview with Wu Ming 1 about the Qanon conspiracy fantasy, collective creativity, and the (ab)uses of enchantment (Theory, Culture, and Society)
• The fate of the artist at the end of  capitalism’s cosmology
• An ‘anxiety epidemic’ in the financialized university: Critical questions and unexpected resistance (Cultural Politics)
• Dreaming together: Artists mobilizing collective dreaming methods for the radical imagination (Capacious)
• dreams and dreaming
• Dangerous Play in an age of Technofinance (TOPIA)
• CBC interview on Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire and other interviews and reviews
• Palm Oil
• Is Amazon the Borg? We Asked Their Workers (LA Review of Books)
• The Sacrificial Altar of Extractive Capitalism: Notes on Abolition and Transition (Mediapart/Berliner Gazette)
• A reflection on the radical imagination: From finance to social movements to games (Junkyard)
• Far from Ukraine, Putin’s War Worsens Palm Oil Crisis (Boston Review)
• Notes towards a theory of risk management as human sacrifice (and vice versa) (Schemas of Uncertainty)
• Recasting the future with Amazon workers (Routledge Handbook of Creative Futures)
• Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire (excerpt)
• Genres Against Markets workshop, Berlin July 11-15
• I Dream of DeFi: A Conversation (Flash Art)
• Financialization and failure: Lessons from the anxious university (Routledge International Handbook of Failure)
• Debt and Financialization of Childhood (Oxford Bibliographies)
• Wages of Dreamwork, Wages for Dreamwork (transmediale)
• Our age of uprisings (ROAR Magazine)
• Reappointed: Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination
• Whither Harmony Square?: Conspiracy Games in Late Capitalism (LA Review of Books)
• A sci-fi reading/film group for Amazon workers (Sociological Review blog)
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• Should Artists ‘Take the Money and Run’? (Art Review)
• A review of J. Lorand Matory’s
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• Money and art: The worst of friends, the best of enemies
• Conspiracies and Countergames Online Summer Institute (19/7-05/8)
• Conspiracy Games and Countergames podcast
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• Revenge Against Revenge: Biden’s Revenge Politics and “The Cure at Troy” (LA Review of Books)
• United States
• Was the GameStop frenzy an artwork? (Hyperallergic)
• Revenge capitalism and the drug war (The Brief podcast)
• opioid crisis
• The GameStop saga is not the revenge against finance we deserve (Novara)
• The power, potential and peril of the GameStop affair (ROAR Magazine)
• Settler Capitalist Multiculturalism, Indigenous Refusal, and the Spectre of Bankruptcy: Rebecca Belmore’s
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• Our Wrecks of the Medusa: A Dialogue
• pandemic
• Unraveling capitalism’s revenge: An interview (ROAR Magazine)
• Empires of Pain: A Story of Racism, Opioids and Revenge (graphic novel)
• graphic novel
• Orcas are not taking nature’s revenge, but we should (ROAR Magazine)
• Thirteen Theses Toward a Materialist Theory of Revenge Capitalism
• “Art, debt, capitalism and revenge” lecture at Slade
• Revenge Capitalism conversation with Marc Garrett (video)
• “Revenge Spending” Won’t Get Us Out of a Crisis of Racial Capitalism (Novara)
• The Order of Unmanageable Risks podcast launch: June 15
• Rising up against white revenge (ROAR Magazine)
• The Order of Unmanageable Risks podcast
• Revenge Fantasy or Avenging Imaginary? (e-flux)
• Capital’s Vengeful Utopia: Unpayable Debts from Above and Below (L’Internationale)
• Capitalism as Revenge :: Revenge Against Capitalism An Interview with Max Haiven (Socialism and Democracy)
• In conversation with Phanuel Antwi about Revenge Capitalism
• No artist left alive (Arts of the Working Class)
• Beyond capitalist authoritarianism, the radical imagination
• On Covid-19, capitalism and what comes after (Audio – This in Hell – 50m)
• “Max Haiven on the desire for vengeance and the demons of capital” interview on Pretty Heady Stuff podcast (1h)
• No return to normal: For a post-pandemic liberation
• The Politics of the Opioid Crisis on KPFA’s Against the Grain (audio)
• Introduction to Art After Money, Money After Art (audio)
• Four-part interview with The Conversation on art and money (audio)
• Culture and Financialization: Four Approaches
• Is there a radical potential in the epidemic of student anxiety on today’s campuses? (Audio)
• Preparing for Millions to Bury their Smartphones
• technology
• From anxiety to revolt? Against the financialized university
• Art, Money and Financialization: Six Radical Money Artists on Either Side of 1973
• Interview with Max Haiven: Art after Money, Money after Art
• The Art of Unpayable Debts
• Revenge Capitalism interview on Against the Grain (audio)
• Currencies of Exodus: The Hidden Ledger of Proletarian Money Sabotage
• The Colonial Secrets of Canada’s Most Racist City
• “Our Opium Wars: The Ghosts of Empire in the Prescription Opioid Nightmare” in Third Text (audio)
• Our Opium Wars: Our Opium Wars The Ghosts of Empire in the Prescription Opioid Nightmare
• Book review: Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization by Max Haven (Roxanne Dubois)
• The Politics of AI-driven Financialization
• Book review: Art After Money, Money After Art (Georgios Papadopoulos)
• Representing (and Being Represented in) Financialization’s Derivative Sociality
• film
• Counterspeculations scholarly audiotour of the City of London
• Art after Money (Open Democracy)
• What is the Fate of Creativity Under Capitalism?
• Political Economy at Art School
• Colonial Debts, Extractive Nostalgias, Imperial Insolvencies intervention series
• This is Hell interview about Art after Money, Money after Art (audio)
• RYBN: Psychogeographies of the Financial Imaginary
• Short interview on RTÉ’s Culture File about Art after Money, Money after Art (audio)
• Marx’s Vindication or Marx’s Revenge (audio)
• The Crypt of Art, the Decryption of Money, the Encrypted Common and the Problem of Cryptocurrencies
• commons
• The Uses of Financial Literacy
• “The logic of financialization is a poison in our hearts and our minds” on This is Hell! (audio))
• Financialization, precarity and reactionary authoritarianism (ROAR)
• “Confronting Financialization Demands a Radical Cultural Politics” in Public Seminar
• Wars on social reproduction: On feminism, the commons, and joyful militancy (interview with Silvia Federici)
• Be Prepared to Win: Indigenous Struggles and the Radical Imagination (Interview with Sherry Pictou))
• Indigenous struggles
• Participatory Art within, against and beyond Financialization
• A Utopia for Money
• globalization
• Commons as Actuality, Ethos and Horizon
• Beyond the Violence of Colonial Civility: The Art of Raven Davis
• Struggles for a collective counter-accounting
• Ghosts and Vagabonds
• The Commons Against Neoliberalism, the Commons of Neoliberalism, the Commons Beyond Neoliberalism
• Outside but Along-Side: Stumbling with Social Movements as Academic Activists
• Art and Money: Three Aesthetic Strategies in an Age of Financialisation
• Money as a Medium of the Imagination: Art and the Currencies of Cooperation
• Interview about “Financialization’s Reach” on Against the Grain (audio))
• An excerpt from the introduction of Cultures of Financialization (2014)
• The Financialized Imagination – TOPIA 30/31 (2014)
• The Creative and the Derivative: Historicizing Creativity under Post-Bretton Woods Financialization (2014)
• The Dammed of the Earth: Reading the Mega-Dam for the Political Unconscious of Globalization (2013)
• Between Success and Failure: Dwelling with Social Movements in the Hiatus
• Walmart, Finance, and the Cultural Politics of Securitization (2013)
• Networks, Finance Capital and the Fate of the Novel (interview with Hari Kunzru)
• Finance Depends on Resistance, Finance Is Resistance, and, Anyway, Resistance Is Futile (2013)
• The Metaphoric Wealth of Finance: Or, Capitalism with a Différance (2013)
• Convoking the Radical Imagination : Social Movement Research, Dialogic Methodologies, and Scholarly Vocations (2012)
• “Halifax Nocturne versus (?) The Spectacle of Neoliberal Civics” 2012
• “Can Pikachu Save Fannie Mae? Value, Finance and Imagination in the New Pokeconomy” (2012)
• Finance as Capital’s Imagination?: Reimagining Value and Culture in an Age of Fictitious Capital and Crisis
• “Are Your Children Old Enough to Learn About May ’68?: Recalling the Radical Event, Refracting Utopia, and Commoning Memory” (2011)
• What is the Radical Imagination? (2011)
• Food(&)Sovereignty (2009)
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• “The Financial Crisis as a Crisis of Imagination” (2010)
• “Privatizing Resistance: AdBusters and the Culture of Neoliberalism” (2007)
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