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January 7, 2015
“Creativity and the Commons” in STIR.
My article "Creativity and the Commons" has appeared in the Winter 2015 issue of STIR, a magazine about co-ops, community and commons. You can order a copy here: http://stirtoaction.com/
November 6, 2014
Art and Money course at the Halifax Public Library in January 2015
This January I’ll be offering my course Art and Money jointly through the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and the brand new Central branch of the Halifax Public Library. The lectures are open to interested members of the public from 1-2pm every Tuesday starting January 6 and concluding April 14. Registered students (and anyone […]
July 22, 2014
The Radical Imagination – now out (+excerpts)
We’re thrilled to announce the publication of our book The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity, now out from Zed Books and Fernwood Publishing. Purchase a copy Summary Chapters Endorsements Excerpts Purchase a copy UK, Overseas and e-book: Zed Books USA: Macmillan Canada: Fernwood Publishing Kindle: Amazon Summary The idea of the imagination is as evocative […]
June 9, 2014
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/progra...
June 7, 2014
Money and Art: An Interview with Max Haiven
Here is a digital version of an interview about my work on money, art and finance, published in the Spring issue of Crit.
May 12, 2014
The Ivory Cage and the Ghosts of Academe, and an open letter to Bush II about his “art”
Two online publications in the past few days: Over at Truth-out, my essay “The Ivory Cage and the Ghosts of Academe: Labor and Struggle in the Edu-Factory,” which discusses the deplorable state of post-secondary/higher education today, and the need to contextualize its decline within the anti-capitalist framework developed by the Edu-Factory Collective. http://truth-out.org/news/item/23391-... Check out […]
April 2, 2014
TOPIA 30/31 “The Financialized Imagination” (April 2014)
I am extremely pleased to announce that, after many months of work, a special double issue (30/31) of TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies has been released. Purchase it and get more information here: http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.... Jody Berland and I co-edited this theme issue, which includes a host of phenomenal contributions from a wide range of […]
February 25, 2014
Book launches and talks (London, Leicester, Essex, Amsterdam, New York, Halifax, Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton)
I’m very pleased to be having book launches or to be giving talks in a variety of places in March and April of 2014: March 17, 3pm (Leicester): Talk: “From Financialization to Fictitious Capital (and Back),” University of Leicester Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy (location TBA) March 18, 7pm (London): Book Launch for Crises […]
February 8, 2014
“Capitalism’s Crisis of Value and Imagination” in Truth-Out
Truth-Out has published an excerpt from my book Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power: Capitalism, Creativity and the Commons (Zed Books, March 2014) titled “Capitalism’s Crisis of Value and Imagination.” It can be found here: http://www.truth-out.org/progressivep... Another excerpt from the book can be found here: http://roarmag.org/2014/01/max-haiven... Here is the article: You, dear reader, are on […]
January 21, 2014
“The Creative and the Derivative” appears in Radical History Review
My article “The Creative and the Derivative: Historicizing Creativity under post-Bretton Woods Financialization” has appeared in the journal Radical History Review, in a special issue (#118) on the “Fictions of Finance” edited by Dara Orenstein and Aaron Carico. The article can be found here: http://rhr.dukejournals.org/content/2... A preliminary, unproofed version can be found over at my Academia.edu […]
