Max Haiven

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London, Ramallah, Toronto, Ljubljana (Jan/Feb 2020 newsletter)

London, Ramallah, Toronto, Ljubljana (Jan/Feb 2020 newsletter)

Based in London March-May 2020

I will be based in London, UK from March 1 to May 31, 2020. While there I will be working with Dr. Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou on a new project about the financialized roots of the epidemic of student anxiety at anglophone North Atlantic universities, under the auspices of a visiting fellowship at University College London’s Institutefor Advanced Study. I will also…

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Revenge Capitalism is coming in the Spring, and Europe

Revenge Capitalism is coming in the Spring, and Europe

My next book, Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts will be published by Pluto in Spring 2020.

I’ll be in Europe this fall for a few events:

November 2, Rome: Talk at the Museo Macro

November 6, Antwerp: Workshop and keynote at the Integrated 2019 Conference

November 7&9, London: Presentations as Historical Materialism 2019

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Epic interview on art and money, plus (summer updates)

Epic interview on art and money, plus (summer updates)

This summer I’m drafting a book on revenge which will be published in 2020 by Pluto Books.

I’m also planning for our summer camp retreat from August 3-10 at Sleeping Giant Provincial Park.

Meanwhile, over the past few months the excellent folks over at The Conversation Artists Podcast have released an epic four-part conversation between me and and host Michael Shaw about my recent book Art After…

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Revenge, art, money (interviews)

Revenge, art, money (interviews)

A few recent audio and text interviews:

[AUDIO] A conversation on the fabulous radio program Against the Grain (KPFA) about the politics of revenge within/against/beyond capitalism

https://kpfa.org/episode/against-the-grain-april-9-2019/

[AUDIO] The first of a several-part conversation with Michael Shaw of the podcast The Conversation about my recent book Art After Money, Money After Art:…

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Currencies of the undercommons: The hidden ledger of proletarian money sabotage The Institute for Network Cultures has just published the State Machines Reader (free online!), edited by Yiannis Colakides, Marc Garrett and Inte Gloerich.

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"The colonial secrets of Canada’s most racist city" - essay and audio I forgot to update this site with the publication, last month, of my essay (with an audio version) "The colonial secrets of Canada’s most racist city" in ROAR Magazine: Audio version:

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Two conferences in April on debt, finance, empire, race and colonialism I'm working with colleagues on two similar but very different conferences in April, one in Sussex, one in Vancouver.

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Our opium wars, art under an empire of unpayable debts and the order of the derivative Three new pieces that have either come out or will come out soon: A shorter piece, "

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London launch events, December 2018

London launch events, December 2018

{The image pictured here is a bond available from the Hoe Street Central Bank. You can purchase one to help them eliminate the predatory payday loans of members of their community! – https://bankjob.pictures}

Three upcoming events in London to wrap up the tour to support the publication of Art After Money, Money After Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization, available now from Pluto…

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Counterspeculation: Podcast, audio-tour and blog

Counterspeculation: Podcast, audio-tour and blog

I’m delighted that, in collaboration with University College London’s Urban Laboratory, the audio-tour, podcast and blog of the Counterspeculations project are now widely available! This project stems from a inquiry-led walking tour of The City of London financial district in April 2017 I organized with Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou. See below for more information!

From https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanl…

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October launch events for Art after Money

October launch events in NYC and the GTA for Art After Money, Money After Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization

For these and other details, visit maxhaiven.com/aammaa. Please stay tuned for November and December dates in Europe.

But the book

here  https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745338248/art-after-money-money-after-art/ (worldwide)

or here https://btlbooks.com/book/art-after-money-money-after-art (Canada)

October events for Art After Money, Money After Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization

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“Colonial Debts, Imperial Insolvencies, Extractive Nostalgias” focus section of Discover Society Clea Bourne, Paul Gilbert, Johnna Montgomerie and I have edited a special section of Discover Society…

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Call for hosts: talks and workshops (2018/2019) - Art after Money, Money after Art

Call for hosts: talks and workshops (2018/2019) – Art after Money, Money after Art

Dear friends,

This fall (2018) and winter (2019) I have some capacity and resources to travel in North America and Europe to deliver talks and workshops associated with my new book Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization, available now worldwide from Pluto Books (and from Between the Lines in Canada).

If you or someone or some institution you know might be…

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The Art and Money Project: Exploring the Nexus of Creativity and Capitalism

The Art and Money Project: Exploring the Nexus of Creativity and Capitalism

Based on the Hugo Boss Prize installation by Hans-Peter Feldmann UPDATE (Summer 2018): I have a book coming out in the fall on this subject: see here.

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/

The Art and Money Project: exploring the nexus of…

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Counterspeculations blog series on the financial imagination

Counterspeculations: a blog series on the financial imagination

Following on the collaborative scholarly walking tour of the financial zone of the City of London that Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and I organized, many of the contributors to that event (and a few special guests) have prepared fascinating blog entries about financialization and the imagination.

Now these blog posts, edited by me and Aris are being posted, about one per week, at Public Seminar,…

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RiVAL July 2018 newsletter

RiVAL July 2018 newsletter

I direct the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL) with Cassie Thornton. Here is our summer 2018 newsletter.

Sign up for our quarterly newsletter here: http://eepurl.com/cBGwlj

Winter/Spring 2018 Activities Navigating Finance and the Imagination (London)

On April 14, RiVAL co-director Max Haiven, along with Dr. Aris Komprozos-Athanadiou of University College London, organized a very special event…

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“Are your children old enough to learn about May ’68?’: Recalling the radical event, refracting utopia and commoning memory” (article, chapter, interview) Fifty years ago this month a series of uprisings, occupations, strikes, protests and struggles rocked the world.