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Alternative Financial Literacy tour, Winter 2018

We at the University of the Phoenix are looking for hosts and supporters in the Midwest and North-East USA for the first of what will hopefully be a series of radical financial literacy tours in January and February of 2018.

Colonial debts, extractive nostalgias, imperial insolvencies – Reimagining financialization (London, Sept 22-23)

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"

Two essays on settler-colonialism

Two forthcoming essays: "The uses of financial literacy" and "Beyond the violence of colonial civility”

What Moves Us: The Lives and Times of the Radical Imagination

Information about the new co-edited collection What Moves Us: The Lives and Times of the Radical Imagination, coming this summer

Winter/Spring 2017 presentations and publications

Presentation, publications and projects, Winter/Spring 2017

Financialization… and its Monsters

A few recent publications about financialization and authoritarianism.

Canada Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice, Lakehead University

As of 1 January 2017, I will be taking up the position of Canada Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Autumn 2016: Seville, Berlin, London, Amsterdam and the University of the Phoenix

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, Sevilla, Spain –III Encuentro Mil formas de mirar y hacer: Artes y Movimientos Sociales, a conference on ART... Read More

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 Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life.

Cassie Thornton and Max Haiven in conversation

The Australian publication Dancehouse Diary has published a conversation between me and Cassie Thornton, of the Feminist Economics Department. It is part of a really interesting special issue about Money and can be found here: http://www.dancehousediary.com.au/?p=...