Dr. Max Haiven
Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination
Associate Professor, English - Lakehead University
955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, Canada P7B 5E1
mhaiven [at] lakeheadu.ca - (+1) 807-343-8600 x8282
maxhaiven.com - reimaginingvalue.ca
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Name: Max Haiven Department/School/Program: English
Present Rank/Title: Associate professor and Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination
Date of Appointment: January 1, 2017 Date Tenured: January 1, 2020
PhD, 2010, English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University, “Finance as capital’s imagination: the imagination of value and the value of the imagination.”
MA, 2005, Globalization Studies, McMaster University, “Creativity, globalization and empire.”
BA (Hons, first class) 2004, Sociology, Saint Mary’s University, “Calling the tune: Internet file sharing and two metanarratives.”
2020-present, Canada Research Chair and associate professor, Department of English, Lakehead University
2017-2019, Canada Research Chair and assistant professor, Department of English, Lakehead University
2013-2016, Assistant professor, Division of Art History and Critical Studies, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
2011-2013, Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Art and Public Policy, New York University
2010-2011, Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Mount Saint Vincent University
2025 Visiting Fellow, Centre for Commons Organising, Values Equalities and Resilience (COVER), Essex Business School, University of Essex
2024 Senior Visiting Research Fellow, University College London (UCL) Institute for Advanced Studies
2024 Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of English, Princeton University
2022 Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination
2021 Lakehead University Merit Award (research)
2021 Lakehead Research Excellence Award
2020 Visiting scholar, University College London Institute for Advanced Studies
2017 Canada Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice
📌 “Refereed” refers to publications that have been “independently reviewed in their entirety by at least two qualified, independent experts, conforming to the standards of the discipline.”
🖇️ Unless otherwise specified, all co-author and co-editor relationships imply an equal workload, responsibility and credit. Order of author/editor names is arbitrary.
⏳ Unless otherwise specified, all forthcoming works (signified by ⏳) are reviewed and accepted for publication.
⏳Haiven, Max. 2026. The Player and the Played: Gamification, Financialization and (anti-)Fascism. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press (in production). 📌
Haiven, Max. 2022. Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire. London and New York: Pluto.📌
Translated into Spanish as Aceite de Palma by Alianza Editorial and Galician as O Aceite de Palma: a Graxa do Imperio by Catroventos Editions.
Haiven, Max. 2020. Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts. London and New York: Pluto. 📌
Haiven, Max. 2018. Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization. London and New York: Pluto. 📌
Haiven, Max. 2014. Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 📌
Translated into Turkish as Hayali Sermaye: Popüler Kültürde ve Gündelik Yaşamda Finansallaşma by Koç Üniversitesi Yayınları (Koç University Press)
Haiven, Max. 2014. Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power: Capitalism, Creativity and the Commons. London and New York: Zed. 📌
Translated into Turkish as Radikal Hayalgücü ve İktidarın Krizleri: Kapitalizm, Yaratıcılık, Müşterekler by Sel Yayıncılık (Sel Publishing)
Haiven, Max, and Alex Khasnabish. 2014. The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity. London and New York: Zed Books 📌
⏳Haiven, Max. 2026. “Participatory worldbuilding, financialized capitalism, and 21st century fascism.” Storyworlds. Accepted for publication.
Haiven, Max. 2026. “Cheating and the fascistic public pedagogy of gamed capitalism: pyramid schemes, sexist advice, misogynist scams and the perfect perfect bastard.” The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 48 (4), 373-389. 📌
Haiven, Max. 2026. “The speculative imagination within, against and beyond Amazon: The Worker as Futurist project in an increasingly fascist context.” Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory. Published online pending volume/issue assignment. 📌
Haiven, Max. 2025. “Capitalism cheats: Three moments of normalized swindling.” Finance & Society, 12 (1): 26-44.. 📌
Haiven, Max. 2025. “Towards a theory of the playgrom: Deep and dark playbor and the work of fascism.” Media Theory 9 (1): 85–116. 📌
Haiven, Max, Graeme Webb, Sarah Olutola and Xenia Benivolski. 2024. “Writing back against Amazon’s empire: Science fiction, corporate storytelling, and the dignity of the workers’ word.” tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 22 (1): 329-347. 📌
Bourne, Clea, Max Haiven, Johnna Montgomerie and Paul Gilbert. 2024. “Financial capital and ghosts of empire: Editorial.” Journal of Cultural Economy 17 (4): 419-433. 📌
Haiven, Max. 2024. “Why play games with conspiracies? A reflection on the board game CLUE-ANON” ephemera. 24 (3): 123-136. 📌
Haiven, Max, A.T. Kingsmith and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou. 2023. “Board games as social media within, against and beyond reactionary capitalism: Towards an enchanted inquiry.” SAQ: South Atlantic Quarterly 122 (4): 795-808. 📌
Haiven, Max. 2023. “Dreaming together: Artists mobilizing collective dreaming methods for the radical imagination.” Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry 3 (1): 52-71. 📌
Haiven, Max. 2023. “From financialization to derivative fascisms: Some cultural politics of far-right authoritarianism in an era of unmanageable risks.” Social Text 155: 45–73.📌
Haiven, Max, A.T. Kingsmith and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou. 2022. "Conspiratorialism as Dangerous Play in an age of Technofinance: From the GameStop Hunger Games to the Capitol Hill Jamboree." TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 45: 102-32. 📌
Haven, Max and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou. 2022. "An ‘anxiety epidemic’ in the financialized university: Critical questions and unexpected resistance." Cultural Politics 18 (2): 173-93. 📌
Haiven, Max. 2018. “Our Opium Wars: The Ghosts of Empire in the Prescription Opioid Nightmare.” Third Text 32 (5-6): 662-669. 📌
Haiven, Max. 2017. “Participatory Art within, against and beyond Financialization: Benign Pessimism, Tactical Parasitics and the Encrypted Common.” Cultural Studies 32 (4): 530–59. 📌
Haiven, Max. 2017. “The Uses of Financial Literacy: Financialization, the Radical Imagination, and the Unpayable Debts of Settler-Colonialism.” Cultural Politics 13 (3): 348–69. 📌
Khasnabish, Alex, and Max Haiven. 2015. “Outside but Along-Side: Stumbling with Social Movements as Academic Activists.” Studies in Social Justice 9 (1): 18–33. 📌
Haiven, Max. 2015. “Art and Money: Three Aesthetic Strategies in an Age of Financialisation.” Finance and Society 1 (1): 38–60. 📌
Haiven, Max. 2014. “The Creative and the Derivative: Historicizing Creativity under Post- Bretton Woods Financialization.” Radical History Review 118: 113–138. 📌
Haiven, Max. 2013. “Walmart, Finance, and the Cultural Politics of Securitization.” Cultural Politics 9 (2): 239-262. 📌
Haiven, Max, and Alex Khasnabish. 2013. “Between Success and Failure: Dwelling with Social Movements in the Hiatus.” Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements 5 (2): 472–98. 📌
Haiven, Max. 2013. “Finance Depends on Resistance, Finance Is Resistance, and, Anyway, Resistance Is Futile.” Mediations 26 (1–2): 85–106. 📌
Khasnabish, Alex, and Max Haiven. 2012. “Convoking the Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research, Dialogic Methodologies, and Scholarly Vocations.” Cultural Studies<=>Critical Methodologies 12 (5): 408–421. 📌
Haiven, Max. 2012. “Halifax Nocturne versus (?) The Spectacle of Neoliberal Civics.” PUBLIC: Art, Culture, Ideas 45 (July): 79–93. 📌
Haiven, Max. 2012. “Can Pikachu Save Fannie Mae? Value, Finance and Imagination in the New Pokeconomy.” Cultural Studies 26 (4): 516–541. 📌
Haiven, Max. 2011. “Finance as Capital’s Imagination?: Reimagining Value and Culture in an Age of Fictitious Capital and Crisis.” Social Text 108: 93–124. 📌
Haiven, Max. 2011. “Are Your Children Old Enough to Learn About May ’68?: Recalling the Radical Event, Refracting Utopia, and Commoning Memory.” Cultural Critique 78 (1): 60–87. 📌
Haiven, Max. 2010. “The Financial Crisis as a Crisis of Imagination.” Cultural Logic 30 (online). 📌
Haiven, Max. 2007. “Privatizing Resistance: AdBusters and the Culture of Neoliberalism.” The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies 29 (1): 85–110. 📌
⏳ Haiven, Max. 2026. "Financialization." The Johns Hopkins Guide to Critical and Cultural Theory. Eds. Martin Kreiswirth, Imre Szeman, Cymene Howe and Andrew Pendakis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. In production. 📌
Haiven, Max. 2026. “Our Worlds of Palm Oil: A Tale of Colonialism, Consumerism and Technology.” The Modern World After Colonialism: Remaking the Social Sciences. Eds. Gurminder Bhambra, Ipek Demir, Paul Gilbert, Su-Ming Khoo and Lucy Mayblin. Bristol University Press. 399-411. 📌
Haiven, Max. 2025. "Finance." Power Shift: Keywords for a New Politics of Energy and Environment. Eds. Imre Szeman and Jennifer Wenzel. Morgantown WV: West Virginia University Press. 143-145.📌
Haiven, Max. 2024. “Sacrifice.” Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary. Eds. Frederik Tygstrup, Torsten Andreasen, Emma Sofie Brogaard, Mikkel Krause Frantzen, Nick Huber. London: Goldsmiths Press.📌
Komporozos-Athanasiou, Aris and Max Haiven. 2023. “Anxiety and self-sabotage in the neoliberal university.” Clickbait Capitalism. edited by Amin Samman and Earl Gammon. Manchester: Manchester University Press.📌
Haiven, Max, Graeme Webb and Xenia Benivolski. 2022. “Recasting the future with Amazon workers.” The Routledge International Handbook for Creative Futures, edited by Alfonso Montuori and Gabrielle Donnelly, 249-258. London and New York: Routledge.📌
Haiven, Max. 2022. "Financialization and failure." The Routledge International Handbook of Failure: Critical Perspectives from Sociology and other Social Sciences, edited by Adriana Mica, Mikołaj Pawlak, Anna Horolets and Paweł Kubicki, 346-362. London and New York: Routledge.📌
Haiven, Max. 2022. “Financialization.” Making Sense of Society, edited by Alex Khasnabish. Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood.📌
Haiven, Max, Enda Brophy and Benjamin Anderson. 2022. “Against Debt’s Digital Empire: Exploring the Connections between Race, Technology, and Global Financial Regimes” in Organizing Equality, 99-125. Montreal and Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press.📌
Haiven, Max. 2022. “Debt and Financialization of Childhood” in Oxford Bibliographies in Childhood Studies, edited by Heather Montgomery. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.📌
Haiven, Max. 2020. "Settler Capitalist Multiculturalism, Indigenous Refusal, and the Spectre of Bankruptcy Rebecca Belmore’s Gone Indian." in The Aesthetics of Ambiguity: Understanding and Addressing Monoculture, edited by Pascal Gielen and Nav Haq. Amsterdam: Valiz.📌
Haiven, Max. 2020. “Beyond Capitalist Authoritarianism, the Radical Imagination.” In We Resist: Defending the Common Good in Hostile Times, edited by Cynthia Levine-Rasky and Lisa Kowalchuk. Montreal and Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press.📌
Haiven, Max. 2020. “Thirteen Theses Towards a Materialist Theory of Revenge Capitalism” In Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left: Recasting Leftist Imagination, edited by Robert Latham, A. T. Kingsmith, Julian von Bargen and Niko Block. Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood.📌
Haiven, Max. 2020. “Culture and Financialization: Four Approaches.” In The Routledge International Handbook of Financialization, edited by Natasha van der Zwan, Daniel Mertens, and Philip Mader. London and New York: Routledge.📌
Haiven, Max. 2020. “The Art of Unpayable Debts.” In The Sociology of Debt, edited by Mark Featherstone. London: Policy.📌
Haiven, Max. 2019. “Currencies of the Undercommons: The Hidden Ledger of Proletarian Money Sabotage.” In State Machines: Reflections and Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship, Finance, and Art, edited by Yiannis Colakides, Marc Garrett, Inte Gloerich. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures.📌
Haiven, Max. 2019. “Art, Money and Financialization: Six Radical Money Artists on Either Side of 1973.” In A Cultural History of Money: The Modern Age (1920-Present), edited by Taylor C. Nelms and David Pederson. London: Bloomsbury.📌
Haiven, Max. 2018. “Representing (and Being Represented in) Financialization’s Derivative Sociality.” In Screening Economies: Money Matters and the Ethics of Representation, edited by Daniel Cunoz, Scott Loren, and Joerg Metelmann. Bielefeld: Transcript.📌
Haiven, Max. 2018. “The Crypt of Art, the Decryption of Money, the Encrypted Common and the Problem of Cryptocurrencies.” In Moneylab Reader 2: Overcoming the Hype, edited by Inte Gloerich, Geert Lovink, and Patricia De Vries, 121–37. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures.📌
Haiven, Max. 2017. “Beyond the Violence of Colonial Civility: The Art of Raven Davis.” In The Art of Civil Action, edited by Pascal Gielen and Philip Dietachmair, 115–36. Amsterdam: Valiz.📌
Haiven, Max. 2017. “Commons as Actuality, Ethos and Horizon.” In Educational Commons in Theory and Practice, edited by Alex Means, Graham Slater, and Derek Ford, 23–37. London and New York: Palgrave MacMillan.📌
Haiven, Max. 2016. “The Commons Against Neoliberalism, the Commons of Neoliberalism, the Commons Beyond Neoliberalism.” In The Handbook of Neoliberalism, edited by Simon Springer, Kean Birch, and Julie MacLeavy, 271–83. London and New York: Routledge.📌
Haiven, Max. 2015. “Money as a Medium of the Imagination: Art and the Currencies of Cooperation.” In Moneylab Reader: An Intervention in Digital Economy, edited by Geert Lovink, Nathaniel Tkacz, and Patricia De Vries, 173–88. Amsterdam: Institute for Network Cultures.📌
Haiven, Max, 2013. “The Metaphoric Wealth of Finance: Or, Capitalism with a Différance.” In The Economy as Cultural System: Theory, Capitalism, Crisis, edited by Todd Dufresne, and Clara Sacchetti, 51–71. London: Bloomsbury.📌
Haiven, Max. 2013. “The Dammed of the Earth: Reading the Mega-Dam for the Political Unconscious of Globalization.” In Thinking with Water, edited by Cecilia Chen, Janine MacLeod, and Astrida Neimanis, 213–231. Montreal and Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press.📌
[journal special issue] Briar Dickey, Max Haiven, Konstanze N’Guessan, Sarah Thorne, Thomas Spies. 2026. “What are antifascist games?” Special issue of Eludamos. Forthcoming. 📌
[collection] Benivolski, Xenia, Max Haiven, Sarah Olutola and Graeme Webb. 2024. The World After Amazon: Stories from Amazon Workers. Thunder Bay: RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab. In print, online and in audio.
[journal section] Bourne, Clea, Johnna Montgomerie, Paul Gilbert and Max Haiven, eds. 2024. "Finance Capital and the Ghosts of Empire." Special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy 17 (4).📌
[edited book] Gilbert, Paul, Clea Bourne, Max Haiven and Johnna Montgomerie, eds. 2023. The Entangled Legacies of Empire: Race, Finance and Inequality. Manchester: Manchester University Press.📌
[journal special issue] Haiven, Max, Enda Brophy and Benjamin Anderson, eds. 2022. "Zero Credits: Countering the Dreams of Technofinance." Special issue of TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 45.📌
[online journal dossier] Haiven, Max, ed. 2022. "Revenge politics, revenge economics, revenge cultures" dossier for Social Text Periscope. Online.
[newspaper section] Haiven, Max and María Inés Plaza Lazo, eds. 2021. “Is Marx Still a Threat” Special section of Art of the Working Class, in conjunction with the The Deutsche Historische Museum. In print and online.
[online dossier] Haiven, Max, Enda Brophy and Benjamin Anderson, eds. 2019. “Digital/Debt/Empire” scholarly blog series for Public Seminar. Online.
[online dossier] Haiven, Max, Johnna Montgomerie, Paul Gilbert and Clea Bourne, eds. 2018. “Colonial Debts, Extractive Nostalgias, Imperial Insolvencies,” scholarly blog section for Discover Society. Online.
[online dossier] Haiven, Max and Aris Komprozos Athanasiou, eds. 2018. “CounterSpeculations,” scholarly blog series for Public Seminar. Online.
[edited book] Khasnabish, Alex, and Max Haiven, eds. 2017. What Moves Us: The Lives and Times of the Radical Imagination. Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood.
[journal special issue] Haiven, Max, and Jody Berland, eds. 2014. “The Financialized Imagination”. TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 30/31 (double issue).📌
[journal special issue] Haiven, Max, and Alex Khasnabish, eds. 2011. What Is the Radical Imagination? Affinities: A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture, and Action, 4 (2).📌
[journal special issue] Haiven, Max, and Scott Stoneman, eds. 2009. Food(&)Sovereignty. Politics and Culture, 10 (2).📌
[chapter] Haiven, Max. 2026. “Unwriting Amazon.” Research and Teaching with Speculative Fiction. Ed. Sarah E. Truman. Bloomsbury. 24-27.
[essay] Max Haiven. 2025. “It’s all a Game, and the Game is Deadly Real: A Psychogeography of Unwinnable Capitalism.” in Making and Breaking.
[annotated bibliography] Max Haiven. 2025. “Amazon as dystopian world-builder (and its enemies)” in Cyberflaneur, from The Syllabus.
[interview] Haiven, Max; Bareikytė, Miglė; Bee, Julia 2024. “The Worker as Futurist Project: Interview with Max Haiven about writing with Amazon Workers as Practice of Radical Imagination.” Navigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften, Jg. 24 (2024), Nr. 2, S. 121–133.
[essay] Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Max Haiven and A.T. Kingsmith. 2024. “11 Theses and an Anti-Authoritarian Board Game.” In Beyond Molotovs - A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies, edited by the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies and kollektiv orangotango. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2024.
[roundtable] Max Haiven. 2023. “For the refusal of unpayable debts: An artists' roundtable with Dele Adeyemo, Ahmed Isamaldin, Bahar Noorizadeh, and Gary Zhexi Zhang” Journal of Cultural Economy 17 (4): 489-503.
[interview] Max Haiven, A.T. Kingsmith, and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou. 2023. “Interview with Wu Ming 1: QAnon, Collective Creativity, and the (Ab)uses of Enchantment” Theory, Culture, and Society 39 (7-8): 253-268.
[introduction] Benjamin Anderson, Enda Brophy, Max Haiven. 2022. “Introduction: Zero Credit.” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 45: 1-16.
[essay] Haiven, Max, Graeme Webb, Xenia Benivolski. 2022. “Is Amazon the Borg? We Asked Their Workers.” Los Angeles Review of Books. May 7.
[essay] Haiven, Max. 2022. “Notes towards a theory of risk management as human sacrifice (and vice versa).” Schemas of Uncertainty. Sandberg Institute, April 29.
[essay] Haiven, Max. 2022. “Far from Ukraine, Putin’s War Worsens Palm Oil Crisis.” Boston Review, April 27.
[essay] Haiven, Max. 2022. “A reflection on the radical imagination: From finance to social movements to games.” The Junkyard: A scholarly blog devoted to the study of imagination. April 27.
[essay] Haiven, Max, A.T. Kingsmith and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou. 2021. "Whither Harmony Square?: Conspiracy Games in Late Capitalism" in the Los Angeles Review of Books, November 13.
[review essay] Haiven, Max. 2021. "Review essay: J. Lorand Matory's The Fetish Revisited." Journal of Cultural Economy, 14 (6): 785-789.
[essay] Haiven, Max. 2021. "Banii Și Arta: Cei Mai Răi Prieteni, Cei Mai Buni Dușmani/Money and Art: The Worst of Friends, the Best of Enemies" Revista-ARTA 48-49 (Special issue: Art and Digital Capitalism): 6-9.
[essay] Haiven, Max. 2021. "Revenge Against Revenge?: Biden’s Revenge Politics and The Cure at Troy" in the Los Angeles Review of Books, March 8, 2021.
[roundtable] Antwi, Phanuel and Max Haiven. 2020. "Our wrecks of the Medusa: A Dialogue on economy, masculinity and race within and beyond the pandemic" in Isolation, Separation and Quarantine: More than an Epidemic, book published by the AM Qattan Foundation (Ramallah).
[essay] Haiven, Max and Cassie Thornton. 2020. "Über die University of the Phoenix" in Experiment lernen, Techniken tauschen: Ein spekulatives Handbuch, edited by Julia Bee and Gerko Egert, 270-289. Weimar: Nocturne.
[essay] Haiven, Max. 2020. "Minerva Cuevas" in Soft Power exhibition catalogue, 94-101. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
[essay] Haiven, Max. 2020. "Revenge Fantasy or Avenging Imaginary?" in E-Flux Conversations, May 22, 2020.
[essay] Haiven, Max. 2020. "Capitalism's Vengeful Utopia: Unpayable Debts from Above and Below." L'Internationale ebook Austerity and Utopia, May 10.
[interview] Soong, C. S. 2020. “Capitalism as Revenge :: Revenge Against Capitalism: An Interview with Max Haiven.” Socialism and Democracy, 34 (2-3): 153-168.
[interview] Lovink, Geert. 2020. "Interview with Max Haiven, author of Art after Money, Money after the Art." In Dan Mihălțianu Canal Grande: The Capital Pool and the Associated Public, ed. Cristian Nae. Published in conjunction with The Romanian Participation at the 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia: 47-6.
[essay] Komprozos-Athanasiou, Aris and Max Haiven. 2019. "Pedestrian Speculators: Methods for Reimagining Financialization Together, on Foot?" Blog of the Sociological Review, April 13, 2019.
[introduction] Haiven, Max, Enda Brophy and Benjamin Anderson. 2019. “Art, Research and Action Against Debt’s Digital Empire: An introduction.” Public Seminar, April 4, 2019.
[interview] Woznicki, Krystian. 2018. "The Politics of AI-driven Financialization: An Interview with Max Haiven." Transversal, November 2018.
[interview] Haiven, Max. 2018. “RYBN: Psychogeographies of the Financial Imaginary (Interview).” Public Seminar, July 13, 2018.
[essay] Haiven, Max. 2017. “Confronting Financialization Demands a Radical Cultural Politics.” Public Seminar, September 18, 2017.
[essay] Haiven, Max. 2017. “A Utopia for Money.” Public Seminar, April 27, 2017.
[interview] Haiven, Max. 2017. “Sherry Pictou: Be Prepared to Win: Indigenous Struggles and the Radical Imagination (Interview).” In What Moves Us: The Lives and Times of the Radical Imagination, 153–61. Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing.
[interview] Haiven, Max. 2017. “Silvia Federici: Wars on Social Reproduction: On Feminism, the Commons and Joyful Militancy (Interview).” In What Moves Us: The Lives and Times of the Radical Imagination, 17–32. Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing.
[interview] Haiven, Max. 2017. “Jerome Roos: Passages from the Interregnum: Countering Austerity and Authoritarianism in Theory, Education and Print.” In What Moves Us: The Lives and Times of the Radical Imagination, 69–89. Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing.
[roundtable] Haiven, Max. 2016. “Struggles for a collective counter-accounting.” Dialogues in Human Geography 6 (3): 323-6.
[catalogue essay] Haiven, Max. 2016. “Ghosts and Vagabonds.” In The Vancouver Carts: Photographs by Kelly Wood, 113–20. London: Black Dog.
[essay] Haiven, Max. 2014. “Watermark.” Harvard Design Magazine 39: 170–71.
[introduction] Haiven, Max, and Jody Berland. 2014. “Introduction: The Financialized Imagination (in Memory of Stuart Hall).” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 30/31: 7–16.
[interview] Haiven, Max. 2013. “An Interview with Hari Kunzru: Networks, Finance Capital and the Fate of the Novel.” Wasafiri 28 (3): 18–23.
[interview] Haiven, Max. 2013. “Hari Kunzru on Networks, the Novel and the Politics of the Author. (Interview)” Public Books, October 2, 2013.
[interview] Haiven, Max. 2011. “Silvia Federici: Feminism, Finance and the Future of #Occupy (Interview).” Urban Habitat 18 (2): 82–83.
[introduction] Haiven, Max, and Alex Khasnabish. 2011. “What Is the Radical Imagination: A Special Issue.” Affinities 4 (2): i–xxxvii.
[essay] Haiven, Max. 2010. “Net/Working in the Edu-Factory.” English Studies in Canada 36 (4): 21–26.
[working paper] Haiven, Max, and Scott Stoneman. 2009. “Wal-Mart: The Panopticon of Time.” Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition Working Paper Series 09 (1).
[review essay] Haiven, Max. 2009. “In-Credible Wealth and Panic in the ‘New Economy.’” Criticism 51 (1): 165–74.
[interview] Haiven, Max. 2009. “Silvia Federici: Capitalism, Colonialism, Women and Food Politics. (Interview).” Politics and Culture 10 (2).
[interview] Haiven, Max. 2009. “Michael Perelman: On Globalization, Economics, and the History of Food Crises.” (Interview) Politics and Culture 10 (2).
[introduction] Haiven, Max. 2009. “Food, Finance, Crisis, Catalyst: Global Capitalism and the Revolutionary Value of Food Sovereignty.” Politics and Culture 9 (2).
[review essay] Haiven, Max. 2006. “Caliban and the Witch.” Politics and Culture 6 (2).
Haiven, Max. 2025. “Radical Gaming.” Tribune, April 4.
Haiven, Max. 2025 “All Games Are Political.” Jacobin, March 16.
Dodov, Stanisla. 2024. “There is a world after Amazon, or the radical joy and need to imagine together: an interview with Max Haiven.” dВЕРСИЯ, September 26
Benivolski, Xenia, Max Haiven, Sarah Olutola and Graeme Webb. 2023. “Amazon Workers’ Sci-Fi Writing Is Imagining a World After Amazon” Jacobin, September 6.
Haiven, Max. 2023. “The fate of the artist at the end of capitalism’s cosmology” Gamechanger, September 5. Translated into German and published by Arts of the Working Class.
Haiven, Max et al. 2022. “I Dream of DeFi: A Conversation” Flash Art, January 28.
Haiven, Max. 2021. “Our age of uprisings.” ROAR Magazine, December 15. Translated into Greek and Turkish
Haiven, Max. 2021. "Should artists 'take the money and run'?" ArtReview, October 6.
Haiven, Max. 2021. "Was the GameStop Frenzy and artwork?" Hyperallergic, February 25.
Haiven, Max. 2021. "The GameStop saga is not the revenge against finance we deserve." Truthout, February 3.
Haiven, Max. 2021. "The power, potential and peril of the GameStop affair." ROAR Magazine, February 3.
Anonymous. 2020. "Q&A with Max Haiven." Gatekeeper Magazine, Autumn 2020.
Hough, Liam. 2020. "Unraveling capitalism’s revenge: An interview with Max Haiven." ROAR Magazine, November 26, 2020.
Haiven, Max. 2020. "'Herd Immunity' Was Originally About Vaccination. Now It Is Neoliberal Violence. An interview with Angela Mitropoulos." Truthout, October 21.
Haiven, Max. 2020. "Orcas are not taking nature's revenge. But we should." ROAR Magazine, September 24, 2020.
Haiven, Max. 2020. "Manslaughter charge for anti-Indigenous violence another win for colonial injustice in Thunder Bay." Canadian Dimension, September 17.
Haiven, Max. 2020. "Revenge Spending Won’t Save Us From Capitalism in Crisis." Novara Media, July 20.
Haiven, Max. 2020. "Rising up against white revenge." ROAR Magazine, June 3.
Haiven, Max. 2020. "Capitalism is taking its revenge. When is it our turn?" ROAR Magazine, May 20.
Haiven, Max. 2020. "No artist left alive." Arts of the Working Class, April 23. Translated into Spanish, German, Dutch and French.
Haiven, Max. 2020. "No return to normal: for a post-pandemic liberation." ROAR Magazine, March 23.Translated into French and Spanish
Woznicki, Krystian. 2019. “Preparing for Millions to Bury their Smartphones: An interview with the art collective The University of the Phoenix.” Mediapart, November 11.
Haiven, Max and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou. 2019. “From anxiety to revolt? Against the financialized university.” ROAR Magazine, October 15.
Haiven, Max. 2019. “The colonial secrets of Canada’s most racist city.” ROAR Magazine, February 13, 2019.
Haiven, Max. 2018. “Political Economy at Art School: Why We Can’t—and Shouldn’t—Disentangle Art from Money.” Canadian Art, September 2018.
Haiven, Max. 2018. “What is the Fate of Creativity Under Capitalism?” Pluto Press Blog, August 2018.
Haiven, Max. 2017. “Financialization, Precarity and Reactionary Authoritarianism.” ROAR Magazine, October 16, 2017.
Haiven, Max. 2017. “What the Abolition of the British Slave Trade Can Teach Us about Free Speech.” Truthout, August 28, 2017.
Haiven, Max. 2017. “Monsters of the Financialized Imagination: From Pokémon to Trump.” ROAR Magazine, February 3, 2017.
Thornton, Cassie, and Max Haiven. 2017. “The Debts of the American Empire — Real and Imagined.” ROAR Magazine (print edition), vol 3, 2017. .
Haiven, Max. 2017. “Monsters of the Financialized Imagination: From Pokemon to Trump.” In State of Power Report, 2017. Amsterdam: Transnational Institute.
Haiven, Max. 2016. “Black Flags and Debt Resistance in America’s Oldest Colony.” ROAR Magazine, August 2, 2016.
Haiven, Max. 2016. “‘The Corollary of the Derivative Is the Border’: Visions for the Democratic Control of Movement.” OpenDemocracy, April 14, 2016.
Haiven, Max. 2016. “The Four Faces of Financialization: Cities as a Site of Struggle.” Amateur Cities, February 9, 2016.
Haiven, Max. 2015. “Reimagining Our Collective Powers against Austerity.” ROAR Magazine, June 5, 2015.
Haiven, Max. 2015. “Creativity and the Commons.” STIR to Action, 2015.
Gough, Zachary. 2015. “On Participatory Art, the Commons and Revolution (Interview with Max Haiven).” In A Soft Spot in a Hard Place. Potland, OR: Publication Studio.
Léger, Marc James. 2015. “Crises of the Radical Imagination: A Conversation with Max Haiven.” The Platypus Review 73.
Khasnabish, Alex, and Max Haiven. 2014. “Lessons From Social Movements: Six Notes on the Radical Imagination.” Truthout, August 9, 2014.
Haiven, Max, and Alex Khasnabish. 2014. “Fomenting the Radical Imagination with Movements.” ROAR Magazine, July 31, 2014.
Khasnabish, Alex, and Max Haiven. 2014. “Why Social Movements Need the Radical Imagination,” July 22, 2014..
Haiven, Max. 2014. “The Ivory Cage and the Ghosts of Academe: Labor and Struggle in the Edu-Factory.” Truthout, April 30, 2014.
Haiven, Max. 2014. “Capitalism’s Crisis of Value and Imagination.” Truthout, February 8, 2014.
Haiven, Max. 2014. “Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power.” ROAR Magazine, January 17, 2014. .
Haiven, Max. 2013. “Financial Totalitarianism: The Economic, Political, Social and Cultural Rule of Speculative Capital.” Truthout, June 12, 2013.
Haiven, Max. 2013. “Exploring the Nexus of Creativity and Capitalism.” Dissident Voice, June 10, 2013.
Haiven, Max. 2013. “The Debt of Creativity.” Dissident Voice, October 29, 2013.
Haiven, Max. 2013. “Virality, Solidarity and Meme Warfare.” Canadian Dimension, September 8, 2013.
Haiven, Max. 2013. “The Art and Money Project: Exploring the Nexus of Creativity and Capitalism.” Art Threat, June 4, 2013.
Haiven, Max. 2012. “OccupySandy: Grassroots Relief from Disaster Capitalism.” Dissident Voice, November 2, 2012.
Haiven, Max. 2012. “The Privatization of Creativity.” Dissident Voice, May 9, 2012.
Haiven, Max. 2011. “Creativity (Pre-)Occupied.” FUSE 35 (1): 8–11.
Haiven, Max. 2011. “Undead Ideologies: Necro-Neoliberalism, Necro-Keynesianism and the Radical Imagination.” ZNet. June 27, 2011.
Presentation, Solidarity AI conference, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, November 12–15, 2026.
Book panel, “Max Haiven’s The Player and the Played”, Historical Materialism conference, London (UK), 5-8 November 2026.
Invited public talk, “The Art and Activism of Money” Kairos, London, 24 May 2026
Invited talk and workshop at “Playing with the Future: Imagination, Agency and Game-Based Pedagogies,” Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium), 22-23 May 2026.
Workshop “Agency, conviviality, rehearsal and fun: What community organizers must learn from games,” and game presentation at the Organize! Movement Meetup, Malmö (Sweden), 16-17 May 2026.
Invited seminar presentation, “Agency, conviviality, rehearsal and fun: What community organizers must learn from games,” and game presentation, European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, Berlin, 12 May 2026.
Invited seminar talk, “From gamed capitalism to 21st century fascism,” and game presentation at the State Sciences Faculty, Erfurt University (Germany), 7 May 2026.
Public panel talk, “Algorithmic Soveriengty” at States of Exception, Somerset House, London, 2 May 2026.
Workshop, “Fighting Fascist Feelings,” (with Sarah Stein Lubrano), Centre for Civic Inclusion, Hamilton (ON), 13 April 2026.
Public demonstration, Billionaires & Guillotines, Another Story Bookshop, Toronto, 12 April 2026.
Workshop, Fighting Fascist Feelings, Sense & Solidarity, Toronto, 10-12 April 2026.
Public demonstration, Billionaires & Guillotines, Spark Space, Halifax, 6 April 2026.
Public demonstration, Billionaires & Guillotines, Clapton Community FC clubhouse, 30 March 2026.
Public demonstration, Billionaires & Guillotines, Spark Space, Bristol, 27 March 2026.
Public talks, “We're Being Played: Fascist Billionaires and the Gamification of Capitalism (and Resistance),” Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, 27 March 2026.
Academic workshop, “Game making for public intervention,” University of the West of England, Bristol, 27 March 2026.
Academic workshop, “Game making for public intervention,” MA program Interactive Storytelling Design, University of Exeter, 26 March 2026.
Public demonstration, Billionaires & Guillotines, The Bastard Cafe, Copenhagen, 20 March, 2026.
Invited talk, “What are antifascist games? Political imaginaries and collective agency beyond Nazisploitation.” Centre for Digital Play, Copenhagen IT University, 19 March 2026.
Keynote, “Workers' Speculative Fictioning Against Technofascist Worldbuilding (and Worldrazing),” Sci-fi and Speculative World-Making conference, Copenhagen Business School, 17-19 March 2026.
Invited talk, Games, walks, and workers' speculative fiction: Participatory approaches to the radical imagination,” Department of English, University of Glasgow, 16 March 2026.
Academic presentation, Billionaires & Guillotines, Games and Gaming Lab, University of Glasgow, 16 March 2026.
Public demonstration, Billionaires & Guillotines, Ancient Robot Games, Edinburgh, 14 March 2026.
Academic presentation, Billionaires & Guillotines, Durham University, 13 March 2026.
Academic presentation, Billionaires & Guillotines, Manchester Games Centre, Manchester Metropolitan University, 11 March 2026.
Public presentation, Billionaires & Guillotines, Lark and Bloom Library, Brighton, 6 March 2026.
Academic workshop, “Billionaires & Guillotines,” Radical Library, University of Sussex, 5 March 2026.
Public demonstration, Billionaires & Guillotines, Moira, Utrecht, 3 March 2026.
Invited talk, “What are antifascist games? Political imaginaries and collective agency beyond Nazisploitation.” University of Utrecht, 3 March 2026.
Public demonstration, Billionaires & Guillotines, 2Dh5 festival, Utrecht, 2 March 2026.
Workshop, “Designing antifascist games” (with Briar Dickey), 2Dh5 festival, Utrecht, 1 March 2026.
Invited talk, “The rule of the cheats: The players and the played in 21st century reactionary politics” Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, 27 February, 2026.
Public panel talk, “Fascist Pleasures,” International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies, Berlin, 25 February, 2026.
Public demonstration, Billionaires & Guillotines, Sybil, Berlin, 24 February, 2026.
Public workshop, “Game-making” youth centre, Vrasta, Bulgaria, 20 February, 2026.
Public demonstration, Billionaires & Guillotines, American University of Bulgaria, 18 February, 2026.
Public demonstration, Billionaires & Guillotines, Full Circle, Brussels, 14 February, 2026.
Public talk, “Games: The dangerous medium of twenty-first century politics,” Full Circle, Brussels, 13 February, 2026.
Public demonstration, Billionaires & Guillotines, The Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, 11 February, 2026
Public demonstration, Billionaires & Guillotines, TONI community centre, Cologne, 10 February, 2026
Public demonstration, Billionaires & Guillotines, Frankfurt, 9 February, 2026
Workshop, “Making Games for/with Academics” Is this still play? Ethnographic perspectives on deep, dark or serious play, Department of Anthropology and African Studies, JGU Mainz, 6-7 February 2026.
Conference presentation, “Three Rights to Play: Liberal, Fascist, and Liberatory,” Is this still play? Ethnographic perspectives on deep, dark or serious play, Department of Anthropology and African Studies, JGU Mainz, 6-7 February 2026.
Public demonstration, Billionaires & Guillotines, Paris, 3 January, 2026.
Workshop, “Fighting Fascist Feelings,” Sense and Solidarity, Brussels, 20-23 November 2025.
Conference presentation, “How financialized capitalism incubated gamified fascism,” Historical Materialism, SOAS (London), 7 November, 2025.
Invited talk, “Is there a world after Amazon? Workers’ creative inquiry and the potentials of speculative fictioning,” Historisches Institut der Universität Bern (Switzerland), 22 October, 2025.
Facilitator, “World Game” at the Pluriverse of Peace conference, hosted by the Berliner Gazette (Berlin), October 16-18, 2025.
Symposium organizer, “What is the antifascist game?” as part of the Games Transformed Festival (London), 11 July, 2025.
Conference presentation, “Escape Velocities: From corporate storytelling to fascist worldbuilding,” Speculating the Future: Fictional Worlds and Financial Realities, Roskilde University (Denmark), 22-23 May 2025.
Seminar, “Activist perspectives on the radical imagination,” Vienna University (Austria), 21 March 2025.
Invited talk, “The uses and abuses of the radical imagination, Vienna University (Austria), 20 March 2025.
Launch, Billionaires and Guillotines (game), Pelican House, London (UK), 11 March 2025.
Invited talk, “Convoking the radical imagination: Games, workers’ SF and other participatory tactics for commoning research” Landscape Surgery research series, Royal Holloway University (London, UK) 4 March 2025.
Invited talk, “Exploring agency and the radical imagination with games,” MSc Urban Studies, University College London (UK), 15 February 2025.
Workshop, “The Word for Their World is Fortress,” DreamXchange (online), 9 February 2025.
Keynote performance, “Speculative Methods with and Against Amazon,” Urban Speculations: Cities, Technologies, Futures, Leuphana University (Germany), 4 Feb 2025.
Workshop, “Gaming theory: A board games making workshop,” Department of Media, Communication and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University (UK), 22 Jan 2025.
Invited talk, “Convoking the Radical Imagination: Several Practices,” PhD Advanced Practices, Goldsmiths University (UK), 16 Jan 2025.
Workshop, Games Design Workshop (with Matteo Menapace), KAIROS Club London, 15 December 2024.
Invited talk, “Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire,” Just Transition in the Palm Oil Sector, HEKS/EPER, 3-4 December 2024.
Workshop, “Games against empire: a workshop on game-hacking for anti-fascist futures” (with Matteo Menapace), Historical Materialism annual conference, 7-10 November 2024.
Invited talk, “Convoking the Radical Imagination: Games, Walks, SF and Other Participatory Methods for Commoning Research,” Centre for Commons Organising, Values Equalities and Resilience (COVER), University of Essex, 6 November 2024.
Workshop, “Playing Within, Against and Beyond the Gamed Economy: A Workshop,” Princeton University Department of English, 22 October 2024.
Invited talk, “Amazon and the Alien: Corporate Storytelling and Workers’ Science Fiction,” Princeton University Department of English, 21 October 2024.
Conference presentation, “Games and satire” at the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 15th conference, New York, 17 October 2024.
Conference presentation, “The player and the played: Gamification, financialization and the new fascism,” Finance and Society Conference, 12-13 September 2024.
Keynote panel, Symposium on the Convergence of Gamification & Financialisation at Abertay University, Scotland, 31 May-1 June.
Workshop, “What is an anti-fascist game?” Laboratório de Pesquisa em Mídia, Entretenimento e Sociedade (LENS) at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), Brazil, 21 March 2024.
Keynote, “The Player and the Played” Laboratório de Pesquisa em Mídia, Entretenimento e Sociedade (LENS) at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), Brazil, 20 March 2024
Invited talk, “Worker as futurist” at Figure it Out: Ghost Workers, Panke gallery, Berlin, 30 January 2024.
Invited talk, “Worker as Futurist,” Glasgow University Innovative Research Methodologies for a Digital Society, Glasgow (online), 1 December 2023.
Workshop, "States of Pay and Play: Gamification and Capitalism,"American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, 27 November 2023.
Invited talk, "Capitalism and the Radical Imagination: A Dialogue," American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, 27 November 2023.
Invited talk, "The Player and the Played: Power and Resistance in Gamified Capitalism" at the PLATFORM visiting lecture series, Abertay University, Dundee, 22 November 2023.
Workshop, "Writing After Their Future: A Sci-fi Fictioning Workshop with Max Haiven" at SALT. CLAY. ROCK. (on nuclear pasts and radiant futures) research assembly, NGBK, Berlin, November 18 2023.
Paper, "Worker as Futurist: Speculative Fiction Writing as Workers Inquiry" at Historical Materialism 2023, London, November 2023.
Play/panel, GameChangers board game, Panke Gallery, Berlin, 28 Septermber 2023.
Discussion, "Working Writers and Writing Workers," Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus, Berlin, September 2023.
Launch event, "Entangled Legacies of Empire: Race, Finance and Inequality," online, June 2023.
Conference presentation, “Worker-as-Futurist: Writing speculative fiction with Amazon workers,” Marxist Literary Group Institute on Culture and Society, June 2023
Invited talk, "Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire." Drugo More cultural centre, Rijeka, Croatia, April 2023.
Invited talk, “Palm oil and the capitalist mode of human sacrifice.” Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Netherlands, April 2023.
Invited talk, “Four Ventures of the Radical Imagination: Experimental Projects about the Changing Faces of Capitalism,” Art Laboratory, Department of the Arts (DAR), Universita’ di Bologna, Italy, April 2023.
Book launch, “The Entangled Legacies of Empire,” Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London, UK, March 2023.
Workshop, “Board game design for social awareness,” Media and Journalism MA program, Macromedia Hochschule Berlin, Germany, March 2023.
Workshop, “Board games for planetary pedagogy,” Performance Studies, University of Giessen, Germany, February 2023.
Seminar, “Methods for the Radical Imagination,” 'Global Humanities' PhD and Colonial and Postcolonial Studies MA programs, Linnaeus University, Sweden, December 2022.
Invited talk, “Palm oil and the empire of sacrifice,” Aesthetics of Empire Research Cluster annual lecture, Linnaeus University, Sweden, December 2022.
Workshop, “Should we play games with conspiracies? CLUE-ANON and the promise of enchanted inquiry.” Copenhagen IT University’s Centre for Digital Play, December 2022.
Invited talk “Palm oil’s ghosts and money’s art,” School of Fine Art and Music Annual Lecture Series, University of Guelph, November 2022.
Online lecture, “Palm oil and sacrificial capitalism,” Marxist Education Project, October 2022.
Book event, Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire, Lakehead University, October 2022.
Conference track facilitation, “Disarming Resource Wars,” After Extractivism conference, Berliner Gazette, October 2022.
Panel discussion, “Empire and Ecology,” After Extractivism conference, Berliner Gazette, October 2022.
Online lecture, “Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire,” Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project: The Environment and Climate Change, June 2022.
Workshop, “Clue-Anon: Exploring conspiracy thinking through game design in a moment of gamified capitalism” Games, Inc. conference organized by ephemera journal, June 2022.
Invited panel talk, NFTs as Revenge Capitalism, Y-Lab of the National Gallery of Singapore (online), May 2022.
Invited talk, “Capitalist Sacrifice” At the No Linear Fucking Time workshop, BAK (Basis voor Actuele Kunst), Utrecht, May 2022.
Invited talk and workshop, “Should we play games with conspiracies?” Athens School of Fine Arts, March 2022.
Invited talk, “Financialization’s culture of revenge” Volatility Cultures series, Goldsmiths University London, February 2022.
Panel facilitator, “Debt, money and compromise” transmediale: for refusal symposium, January 2022.
Invited talk, “Revenge Capitalism” The Marxist Education Project, November 2021.
Invited talk, “Risk management as human sacrifice and vice-versa” Schemas of Uncertainty series, Sandberg Institute (Amsterdam) (online), November 2021.
Invited talk, "The ghosts of Occupy: Notes on a haunted decade, in the spirit of David Graeber?" Art of Assembly, Volksbühne Theatre (Berlin), September 2021.
Invited talk, “Revenge capitalism and money's utopia" at &Utopia. University of Copenhagen and California Institute of the Arts (online), September 2021.
Invited talk, “Art, opium and anaesthetics now” at Opium Wars – Opium Cultures workshop, online. Universität Bielefeld (Germany), June 2021.
Panel talk, Debt After Graeber, Red May, Seattle (online), May 2021.
Panel talk, The Vengeance of Unpayable Debts, RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab (online), April 2021.
Invited talk, "The struggle for the post-pandemic imagination," part of the Third Age Learning Lakehead speaker series Pivot(al): Possibilities for a Post-pandemic World (online: Thunder Bay, Canada), March 2021.
Invited panel talk, Radical Imagination: Storytelling and Ways of Connection, part of University of British Columbia's Communities of Care Speakers' Series (online: Vancouver, Canada), March 2021.
Invited talk, "From the radical imagination to revenge capitalism (and back)" hosted by the Royal Institute of Art's Post-Masters Collective Practice Research Course (online: Stockholm, Sweden), March 2021.
Invited panel talk, "Economic disobedience and the avenging imaginary in the age of never-ending culture wars" hosted by Contemporary Art and Social Transformation and the School of Art at RMIT University (online: Melbourne, Australia), October 2020.
Panel talk, "What is revenge capitalism?" at Revenge Capitalism and Revenge Communism, hosted by Common Notions, Pluto Press and RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab (online), October 2020.
Public talk, "Revenge capitalism." Hosted by Anitcapitalist Resistance (online: London, UK). October 2020.
Invited talk, “Money=social magic” at Moneylab 8 conference (Ljubljana, Slovenia), June 2020
Invited talk, "Art, debt, capitalism and revenge" at the Slade School of Fine Art (London), May 2020.
Invited talk, “Is ours an age of revenge capitalism?” at the University College of London Institute for Advanced Study Talking Points Seminar, online, May 2020.
Invited talk, “‘Revenge is a human dream” at Radical May online bookfair, online , May 2020.
Keynote, “Revenge cultures and dead zones” at Economies of Dispossession conference, OCAD University (Toronto, Canada), March 2020.
Invited talk, “The Radical Imagination” at Al-Quds Bard College (East Jerusalem, Palestine), February 2020.
Invited talk, “Art after money, money after art” at the Al Qattan Foundation (Ramallah, Palestine), February 2020.
Conference presentation, “Towards a materialist theory of revenge” at Historical Materialism 16 conference, SOAS University (London, UK), November 2019.
Conference presentation (with Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou), “Rethinking the student anxiety epidemic” at Historical Materialism 16 conference, SOAS University (London, UK), November 2019.
Keynote, “The radical imagination” at Integrated 2019 conference, deSingel University (Antwerp, Belgium), November 2019.
Invited talk, “Art after money, money after art” at MACRO Institute for contemporary art (Rome), November 2019.
Keynote, “Infinite scroll: Awakening the dead zones of the imagination in an age of digitized injustices” at Digitizing Justice: Law, Crime, and Order in an Online World, University of Winnipeg, May 2019.
Invited talk, “Colonial Debts, Imperial Insolvencies, Extractive Nostalgias,” at the Race, Indigeneity, Gender & Sexuality Studies Initiative, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis), May 2019.
Invited talk, “Rebel Currencies” at the OCAD University, Toronto, March 7, 2019.
Keynote, “The Radical Imagination against Financialization and Authoritarianism.” Imaginación política: Encuentro internacional (Political Imagination: International Meeting). Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico city from 25-27 Feb 2019.
Keynote, International Development Conference. University of Toronto Scarborough (Canada), January 2019.
Facilitator, Unintentional Community workshop track, Ambient Revolts conference, Berliner Gazette (Berlin), November 2018.
Book roundtable, “Art After Money, Money After Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization.” Supermarkt (Berlin), November 2018.
Invited talk, “Seeing Money Unlike a State.” Critical Studies Programme, Sandberg Institute (Amsterdam), November 2018.
Invited talk, “Art After Money, Money After Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization.” Political Economy Research Centre, Goldsmiths University (London), November 2018.
Invited talk, “Art After Money, Money After Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization.” OCAD University (Toronto), October 2018.
Invited workshop, “Activist currencies.” Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University (New York), October 2018.
Invited talk, “Palm Oil and Frictitious Capital.” ReAssembling Nature exhibition at the Tieranatomisches Theater (TAT), Humboldt University (Berlin), April 2018.
Invited talk, Scholarly conference, “Currencies of vengeance.” MoneyLab #5: Matters of Currency, University of Buffalo (Buffalo NY), April 2018.
Keynote, Public event, “Marx’s vindication or Marx’s revenge?” 200 Anos del Marx, Bloco Esquarda (Lisbon, Portugal), March 2018.
Invited talk, Public event, “Financialization and colonial accumulation.” Transmediale 2018 conference: Face Value, Transmediale festival (Berlin, Germany), Jan 2018.
Keynote, Public event, “Revenge.” Transmediale 2018 conference: Face Value, Transmediale festival (Berlin, Germany), Jan 2018.
Panel moderator, Public event, "The poetics of abolition.” Abolish Border Imperialism gathering, Abolition Journal Collective (Minneapolis, USA), Oct 2017.
Invited talk, Scholarly conference, “Art after money, money after art.” Screening Economies, St. Gallen University (Switzerland), Sept 2017.
Invited talk, Public event, In dialogue w. Dr. Josef Vogl. Ghostmachines public dialogue, Berliner Gazette (Berlin, Germany), Sept 2017.
Invited talk, Public speaker series, “Welcome to the Debt Machine: The Betrayal of the University and Young People in an Age of Corporate Power.” Speaking Truth to Power series, Lakehead University Student Union (Thunder Bay, Canada), Sept 2017.
Conference presentation, “Financialization as settler-colonialism?” Socialist Studies annual conference, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Ryerson University (Toronto), June 2017.
Participant and presenter, NGO workshop, “Monsters of the financial imagination.” Transnational Institute annual fellows meeting, Amsterdam, June 2017.
Invited talk, public event, “Movements of the imagination.” Talking in the Centre of the Problems public discussion series, Volksbühne Theatre (Berlin, Germany), May 2017.
Conference presentation, "Marx’s (Theory of) Revenge". Karl Marx's Critique of Political Economy and the Global Crisis Today: A conference on the 150th Anniversary of the Publication of Capital, Hofstra University (Long Island, USA), April 2017.
Keynote, public event, Art After Money, Money After Art: Radical Creative Strategies Against Financialization. South East Asia Forum, Art Stage art fair (Singapore), Jan 2017.
Invited talk, Scholarly panel, “Financial utopias and the colonization of the imagination.” Reclaiming utopia: Challenging the financial imagination, King’s College of London (UK), Nov 2016.
Panel organizer and chair, Scholarly conference, Finance: The Unknown. Intersections of Finance and Society conference, City University of London (UK), Nov 2016.
Conference presentation, “Financialization as Settler-Colonialism, Settler-Colonialism as Financialization.” Intersections of Finance and Society conference, City University of London (UK), Nov 2016.
Keynote, Scholarly conference, “Art after money, money after art.” III Encuentro Mil formas de mirar y hacer: Artes y Movimientos Sociales, Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Sevilla, Spain), Sept 2016.
Conference presentation, “Undercommoning the University.” Canadian Anthropology Society annual conference, Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada), May 2016.
Workshop (with Alex Khasnabish), Scholarly conference, Solidarity Research with Social Movements workshop. Canadian Anthropology Society annual conference, Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada), May 2016.
Keynote, Scholarly conference, “Art after money, money after art.” ART/MONEY/CRISIS, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge (UK, April 2016.
Invited talk, scholarly speakers series, “Notes Toward Articulating Financialization and/as Settler-Colonialism.” Institute for Society and Culture Seminar Series, University of Western Sydney (Australia), Feb 2016.
Invited talk, scholarly speakers series, “From Wampum to Weapon: The Powers and Perils of Imaginary Wealth.” Department of Politics and Philosophy, LaTrobe University (Melbourne, Australia), Feb 2016.
Invited faculty, masterclass, Financialization and the Radical Imagination. Department of Politics and Philosophy, LaTrobe University (Melbourne, Australia), Feb 2016.
Invited talk, Scholarly speakers series, “The Arts of Commoning and the Design of the Commons.” Polo das Indústrias Criativas do UPTEC (PINC), University of Porto (Portugal), Dec 2015.
Invited talk, Scholarly speakers series, “The radical imagination.” Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação, Universidade Lusofona de Humanidades e Tecnologias (Lisbon, Portugal), Dec 2015.
Panel chair, Scholarly conference, Artistic strategies. MoneyLab 2: Economies of Dissent, Institute for Network Cultures (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Dec 2015.
Invited talk, Public presentation, “Money’s Participatory Arts: Financialization, Benign Pessimism and Tactical Parasitics.” DATA Series, Limerick Art Gallery (Ireland), Nov 2015.
Invited talk, Scholarly speakers series, “Money’s Participatory Arts: Financialization, Benign Pessimism and Tactical Parasitics.” Department of Art Theory, Universität für angewandte Kunst (Vienna, Austria), Nov 2015.
Invited talk, Scholarly speaker series, “From Wampum to Weapon: The Powers and Perils of Imaginary Wealth.” Centre for Innovation, Technology and Innovation, University College of Dublin (Ireland), Nov 2015.
Keynote, Public workshop, “The promise of the commons.” Vilnius Business Forum, (Vilnius, Lithuania), Oct 2015.
Invited talk, Public conference, Panel on the politics of big data. UN|COMMONS conference, Berliner Gazette (Berlin, Germany), Oct 2015.
Conference presentation (with Ezra Winton), “The Financialization of Documentary, Documenting Financialization.” Union for Democratic Communication annual conference, University of Toronto (Canada), April 2015.
Invited talk, Public conference, Public in Peril panel. Slow Politics conference, Berliner Gazette (Berlin, Germany), Nov 2014.
Invited talk, Scholarly speaker series, “The Torqued Imagination: The (re)Production of Fictitious Capital under Financialization.” Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought, Acadia University (Wolfville, Canada), Nov 2014.
Invited talk, Public speakers series, “Crises of imagination, crises of power.” Office for Public Culture, Grand Valley State University (Grand Rapids, USA), Oct 2014.
Conference presentation, “Utopian money: Artistic projects within and against financialization.” Utopians Studies Society annual conference, Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), Oct 2014.
Invited talk, scholarly speaker series, “Art, debt, creativity, struggle.” Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada), Oct 2014.
Invited talk, scholarly workshop, “Money: Imagination and Infrastructure.” Money as Communication: Technology, Culture, and Economic Practice., Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California (Los Angeles, USA), Oct 2014.
Invited talk, scholarly speaker series, “Money as a medium of imagination.” Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion, University of California, Irvine (Los Angeles, USA), Oct 2014.
Keynote, undergraduate conference, “Crises of the Imagination: Confronting Capitalism's Conscription of the Futures.” Symposium on the Interdisciplinary Humanities, Scripps College (Los Angeles, USA), Oct 2014.
Keynote, public event, “Creativity and the commons: Sharing the city and its potentials.” Aesthetics of Mediation Creative City Conference, City of Sapporo (Japan), Sept 2014.
Invited talk, scholarly speaker series, “Currencies of the common.” Public in Peril series, Hertie School of Global Governance (Berlin, Germany), Sept 2014.
Keynote, public event, “The commons of the hand, the commons of the heart, the commons of the mind.” Direct Democracy Festival, Aristotle University (Thessaloniki, Greece), Sept 2014.
Invited talk, scholarly speaker series, “Money and utopia.” Graduate Program in Media Studies, Pratt Institute (New York, USA), March 2014.
Invited talk, scholarly workshop, “Money as artistic media: Mediating capital, three strategies.” Moneylab: Coining alternatives, Institute for Network Cultures, Technical University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), March 2014.
Invited talk, scholarly speaker series, “The dark arts of finance: Speculation, collaboration, artistic labour.” Business School, University of Essex (UK), March 2014.
Invited talk, scholarly speaker series, “Fictitious capital, metaphoric wealth.” School of Management, University of Leicester (UK), March 2014.
Conference presentation, “Money, Art and the Post-Public Sphere.” Tracing the City: Interventions of Art in Public Space conference, Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada), October 2013.
Conference presentation, “Art, Money and Public Praxis.” The Twenty-Seventh Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, School of the Visual Arts (New York City, USA), Oct 2013.
Conference presentation, “Money as Artistic Media: Coins of the Realm.” Art and Money conference, Dunedin School of Art (New Zealand), August 2013.
Keynote, public event, “The debt of creativity.” TEDxNova Scotia, Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada), March 2013.
Keynote, scholarly conference, “The ghosts of academe.” Crisis of Academic Labour conference, Syracuse University (USA), March 2013.
Invited talk, scholarly speaker series, “Art and money: intersections and experiments.” Department of Visual Arts, University of Western Ontario (London, Canada), March 2013.
Invited talk, public talk, “Struggles within, against and beyond the edu-factory.” Professional Staff Congress of the City University of New York, (New York City, USA), March 2013.
Invited talk, scholarly speaker series, “From financialization to fictitious capital.” Consumption Studies speakers series, Schulich School of Business, York University (Toronto, Canada), Jan 2013.
Conference presentation, “Ætherwork: Finance Capital and the Enchantment of Art.” Hard Cash workshop, University of Leicester School of Management (UK), Dec 2012.
Conference presentation, “Mobilizing the shift: Edu-Factory and the struggle over knowledge in cognitive capitalism.” Mobility Shifts: International Future of Learning Summit, The New School for Social Research (New York City, USA), October 2011.
Conference presentation, “Metaphoric wealth: Global finance with a differánce.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) annual conference, University of New Brunswick (Canada), May 2011.
Roundtable participant, scholarly conference, “Net/working the edu-factory.” ACCUTE annual conference, University of New Brunswick (Canada), May 2011.
Conference presentation, “The creative work of race.” Canadian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (CACLALS) annual conference, University of New Brunswick (Canada), May 2011.
Invited talk, scholarly speaker series, “The financial crisis as a crisis of imagination.” Faculty speaker series, Mount Saint Vincent University (Halifax, Canada), April 2011.
Conference presentation, “The afterlife of the global justice movement: radical imagination among Halifax social movements ten years after Seattle.” People and Politics: Interactions between Citizens and the Canadian State, Mount Allison University (Sackville, Canada), March 2011.
Conference presentation, “The knowledge/culture work of race: An intervention.” Challenges of Work and Workers in a Knowledge Economy, Saint Mary’s University (Halifax, Canada), Oct 2010.
Conference presentation, “The dammed of the earth: Reading the dam for the flows of globalization.” Think with Water workshop, Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), June 2010.
Conference presentation, “The fiction of value (and value of fiction) in an age of financialization.” Institute on Culture and Society annual conference, St. Francis Xavier University (Antigonish, Canada), June 2010.
Conference presentation, “Is finance capital’s imagination?: The dialectic of value and imagination amidst the spectacle of 'fictitious values’.” Historical Materialism annual conference, York University (Toronto, Canada), May 2010.
Conference presentation, “Negotiating value and creativity in the Pokéconomy.” Canadian Association of Cultural Studies (CACS) bi-annual Conference, McGill University (Montreal, Canada), Oct 2009.
Conference presentation, “The value of value: literature, economics and the value of Canadian culture in the 2008 elections.” ACCUTE annual meeting, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), May 2009.
Conference presentation, “Casino capitalism for kids?: structure and agency in the Pokémon economy.” ACCUTE annual meeting, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), May 2009.
Conference presentation, “The dammed of the earth: King, Roy and the X-Men.” CACLALS annual meeting, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), May 2009.
Conference presentation, “It’s 20XX, but where are all the Indians?: Canadian dystopian fiction and the futures of genocide and globalization.” Annual Conference of the Utopian Studies Society, University of Limerick (Ireland), July 2008.
Conference presentation, “Radical adaptations: addressing the invocation of the event in Peter Watkins’ La Commune.” Cultures of Translation: Adaptation in Film and Performance, Glamorgan University (Cardiff, UK), June 2008.
Conference presentation, “The urgency of creativity in an age of shifting sovereignties.” CACS bi-annual conference, University of Alberta (Canada), Oct 2007.
Conference presentation (with Scott Stoneman), “The circuit of labour and leisure in the age of biopolitical production.” Metastasizing Capital: The Logic of Unbridled Growth, Brock University (St. Catherines, Canada), April 2006.
Workshop presentation, “Problematizing the digital poetics and politics of organizing.” Digital Poetics and Politics Summer Institute, Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada), August 2004.
[podcast] Against the Fascist Game. Commissioned by Weird Economies. 9 episodes. 2025.
[board game] Billionaires and Guillotines, critical board game. Published by Pluto Press 2025.
[podcast] The Exploits of Play. Commissioned by Weird Economies. 9 episodes. 2024.
[art residency] The Strange Bedfellowship (Phanuel Antwi, Max Haiven and Cassie Thornton). Residency program. Hosted by transmediale, Berlin, March 2022.
[podcast] Conspiracy Games and Counter Games (with Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and A.T. Kingsmith). June 2021-2022 (20 episodes).
[graphic novella] Empires of Pain: A Story of Racism, Opioids and Revenge. October 2020.
[podcast] The Order of Unmanageable Risks (with Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou). May-October 2020 (11 episodes).
[art commission] University of the Phoenix (Cassie Thornton and Max Haiven). "Curse of Amazon." Contribution to Silent Works exhibition and conference. Hosted by the Berliner Gazette, Berlin, November 2020.
[commissioned performance] University of the Phoenix (Cassie Thornton and Max Haiven). “The Order of the Immortal Stranger.” Opening performance. MORE WORLD conference, hosted by the Berliner Gazette, Berlin, October 2019.
[commissioned performance] University of the Phoenix (Cassie Thornton and Max Haiven). “Throwing up ghosts against the border.” Performance-lecture and ritual. Applied Microperformativity Symposium, Angewandte Innovation Laboratory (AIL), University for the Applied Arts (Vienna), December 2018.
[commissioned performance] University of the Phoenix (Cassie Thornton and Max Haiven). “Embracing the Immortal Stranger” and “Not Even the Dead Will Be Safe.” Performance-lecture and workshop. Part of the Heterotopian Summit, Folkwang University of Art and Design, Essen (Germany), June 2018.
[commissioned performance] University of the Phoenix (Cassie Thornton and Max Haiven). “Investing in learning with the dead: The University of the Phoenix Story.” Lecture and performance, hosted by the EGfKA theatre collective and Ringlokschuppen Ruhr (theatre), Mülheim (Germany), February 2018.
[commissioned performance] University of the Phoenix (Cassie Thornton and Max Haiven). “Working with the Dead for Radical Economic Transformation.” Performance and workshop. Part of the Transmediale Festival, Berlin, January 2018.
[commissioned performance] University of the Phoenix. (Cassie Thornton and Max Haiven) “GhostMachine.” Performance. Part of the SIGNALS art exhibition, hosted by the Berliner Gazette and Diamond Paper, Berlin, October 2017.
[commissioned performance] Flo6x8 and the University of the Phoenix (Cassie Thornton and Max Haiven). “Doñana y el Tulipán Africano” performance and video, Sevilla (Spain), Spring 2017.
[commissioned performance] Flo6x8 and the University of the Phoenix (Cassie Thornton and Max Haiven). “Debt, Flamenco and the Rebel Body” workshop and performance, Sevilla (Spain), Winter 2016
[commissioned performance] University of the Phoenix (Cassie Thornton and Max Haiven). “Eulogy for Excellence” performance, hosted by the Institute for Network Cultures, Amsterdam (Netherlands), Winter 2016.
[commissioned performance] University of the Phoenix (Cassie Thornton and Max Haiven). “The immortal stranger” performance, San Francisco (USA), Fall 2016.
[residency] University of the Phoenix (Cassie Thornton and Max Haiven), “The white cube” research-creation residency, Puerto Rico, Summer 2016.
2022, Alex Khasnabish and Max Haiven (co-applicants), SSHRC Connection grant: “The Radical Imagination: A Multimedia KMb Mini-Series,” CA$42,480.00.
2022, Max Haiven, SSHRC Insight Development grant: “Worker as Futurist: Cultivating the Radical Imagination with Amazon Employees through Speculative Fiction Writing” CA$53,936.00.
2022, Phanuel Antwi and Max Haiven (co-applicants), SSHRC Connection grant: “Collective dreaming for the radical imagination,” CA$25,030.00.
2021, Max Haiven, Canada Research Chair in The Radical Imagination, CA $500,000
2020, Max Haiven and Adar Charlton (co-applicants), SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant “ReMatriating the Library” (partner: Thunder Bay Library), CA$22,950.00.
2018, Enda Brophy and Max Haiven (collaborator), SSHRC Connections Grant “Debt/Digital/Empire,” CA$24,963.00
2017, Max Haiven, Canadian Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders’ Fund grant, CA$42,705.00
2017, Max Haiven, Canada Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice, CA $500,000
2016, Max Haiven, SSHRC, Insight Development Grant “Art after Money, Money after Art,” CA$43,095.00
2011, Max Haiven, SSHRC Postdoctoral fellowship, CA$81,000.00
2010, Alex Khasnabish and Max Haiven (co-applicants), SSHRC Standard Research Grant, CA$58,000.00
2006, Max Haiven, SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship (PhD, 3 years)
2005, Max Haiven, Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2004, Max Haiven, SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship (MA)
2023-present: Founding co-director, Sense & Solidarity
Sense & Solidarity is a platform for social movement protagonists and people who want to change the world come together to learn about the psychology of what changes minds and the potential of the radical imagination. It produces a podcast, hosts retreats and workshops, organized public events, and works to support the next generation of public intellectuals. It is facilitated by Max Haiven and Sarah Stein Lubrano.
2024-present: Founding curator, Pluto Games
Pluto Games is a new iniative from Pluto Publishing, a 50+ year old radical press based in London, that aims to publish, promote, and celebrate board and other analogue games. Billionaires & Guillotines, it’s first game, will be published in 2025.
2020-present: Founder and editor, VAGABONDS book series, Pluto Press.
VAGABONDS is a series of provcative peer-reviewed pamphlets to fan the flames of discontent at the intersection of critical inquiry, social activism and interventionist art. The series includes unique anti-capitalist, anti-racist, queer and feminist voices towards revolutionary change and collective liberation.
2017-present: Founder and director, ReImagining Value Action Lab (Lakehead University)
RiVAL is a workshop for the radical imagination, social justice and decolonization, based in Thunder Bay, Canada, and active online and around the world. It’s activities include: organizing workshops, conferences and symposia; supporting research and public outreach in many forms; producing podcasts and other media to explore and broadcast provocative ideas.
2015-2023: University of the Phoenix
An artistic ensemble that used performances, digital media, research-creation and other methods to dwell on the relationship between death, ghosts, haunting, capitalism, technology and relationality.
2010-2017: Co-founder and co-director, Radical Imagination Project (NSCAD/MSVU)
The Radical Imagination Project was a participatory research project that worked with grassroots social movements in Halifax, Canada, to promote critical and radical ideas. It incorporated methods of participatory action research, participant observation and deep ethnology. Its activities also included organizing public events, film screenings and academic gatherings.
2017-present, Member, Lakehead University Department of English, events and communications commitee
2017-present, Member, Lakehead University Department of English graduate committee, Member
2019-2023, Member, Lakehead University Social Justice Studies Events Committee,
2018-2023, Member, Lakehead University Department of English scholarships committee Member
2017-2023, Member, Lakehead University Department of English publicity and events committee
2020-2021, Member, Lakehead University Research Chairs selection committee
2017-2021, Member, Lakehead University Social Justice Studies graduate program committee
2017-2019, Member, Lakehead University Department of English recruitment committee
2014-2016, Convenor, NSCAD research speakers’ series coordinator.
2013-2016, Member, NSCAD Art&Activism collective
2013-2014, Member, NSCAD joint equity committee
Organizer, “Games Against Borders” symposium, London (UK), 30 October 2026.
Book panel, “Max Haiven’s The Player and the Played”, Finance and Society conference, Copenhagen, 11 September 2026.
Keynote, “Who saves the world?,” Labour, Speculation, and Climate Fiction workshop, Department of English, University of Basel, 9 September 2026
Organizer, “What is the Antifascist Game?” symposium, London (UK), 11 July 2025.
Co-organizer, "The Truth? In This Economy?," symposium, Centre for Capitalism Studies, University College London (UK), 10 April 2025.
Co-organizer, Genres Against Markets, Summer institute, Berlin (Germany), July 2022.
Organizer, Conspiracies and Countergames, Summer institute, online, July-August 2021.
Co-organizer, "The Bank, The Mine, The Colony, The Crime," collaborative walking tour/conference of Toronto's financial district, October 2019.
Organizers, “Radical Economies of the Imagination” summer institute, Thunder Bay (Canada), August 2019.
Co-organizer, scholarly conference, “Debt/Digital/Empire.” Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada), April 2019.
Co-organizer, scholarly conference, “Global finance and The Ghosts of Empire.” Sussex University (UK), April 2019.
Co-organizer, scholarly workshop, “Navigating finance and the imagination: A collaborative tour on the City of London.” Department of Sociology, University College London (UK), April 2018.
Co-organizer, scholarly workshop, “Colonial debts, extractive nostalgias, imperial insolvencies - Reimagining financialization,” Goldsmiths University, London (UK), Sept 2017.
Co-organizer, “Fighting Fascist Feelings,” 3-day study workshop, Sense & Solidarity, Toronto, April 2026..
Co-organizer, “Fighting Fascist Feelings,” 1-day study workshop, Sense & Solidarity, London (UK), March 2026.
Organizing committee, “Games Transformed Festival,” 2-day festival, London UK, July 2025.
Co-organizer, “Fascist Dreams, Antifascist Awakenings,” 4-day study workshop, Sense & Solidarity, Palermo (Italy), May 2025.
Co-organizer, “Changing Hearts and Minds,” 4-day movement training, Sense & Solidarity, London (UK), November 2024.
Co-organizer, “May Day Movement Academy,” 4-day movement training, Sense & Solidarity, Berlin (Germany), May 2024.
Co-organizer, “Changing Hearts and Minds,” 12-week online movement training, Sense & Solidarity, online, September-December 2023.
Antipode; Borderlands; Convergence; Cultural Politics; Economy and Society; ephemera; Finance and Society; Garage Journal; Journal of American Studies; Journal of Cultural Economy; Mediations; Philosophy and Technology; Political Economy of Communication; Qualitative Inquiry; Third Text; TripleC; TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies; Journal of Multidisciplinary Research at Trent; Society; Studies in Social Justice; Qualitative Inquiry; Theory and Society
Bloomsbury; Duke University Press; Fernwood Publishing; Goldsmiths University Press, New Frontiers Research Fund (Canada); Oxford University Press; Palgrave MacMillan; Pluto Books; Social Sciences a Humanities Research Council of Canada; University of Chicago Press; Zed Books.
(*) indicates that I designed or completely rebuilt the curriculum for these course
2026 (*) - Cultures of fascism and antifascism, (graduate and senior undergraduate seminar), Department of English and Social Justice Studies, Lakehead University.
2026 (*) - Introduction to Popular Culture (entry undergraduate lecture), Department of English, Lakehead University.
2025 (*) - The Ghosts of Revolution (graduate and senior undergraduate seminar), Department of English and Social Justice Studies, Lakehead University.
2025 (*) - The Story of Games (senior undergraduate seminar), Department of English, Lakehead University.
2024 (*) - Media, Art and Activism (senior undergraduate lecture), Media Studies, Lakehead University.
2024 (*) - Play Revolutions (graduate and senior undergraduate seminar), Department of English and Social Justice Studies, Lakehead University.
2017-2023 (*) - Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (junior undergraduate lecture), Department of English, Lakehead University.
2022 (*) - We Owe You Nothing (graduate and senior undergraduate seminar), Department of English and Social Justice Studies, Lakehead University.
2021 (*) - Conspiracy, Games and Disinformation (graduate and senior undergraduate seminar), Department of English and Social Justice Studies, Lakehead University.
2020 (*) - Narratives of Surplus and Sacrifice (graduate and senior undergraduate seminar), Department of English and Social Justice Studies, Lakehead University.
2018 (*) - Money and Inequality in Cultural Work (graduate and senior undergraduate seminar), Department of English and Social Justice Studies, Lakehead University.
2017 (*) - Radical Imagination (graduate and senior undergraduate seminar), Department of English and Social Justice Studies, Lakehead University.
2012-2016 (*) - Introduction to Material Culture (junior undergraduate lecture), Division of Art History and Cultural Studies, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
2016 (*) - Social and Participatory Practices (senior undergraduate seminar), Division of Art History and Cultural Studies, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
2015 - MFA Research Creation (graduate seminar), Division of Art History and Cultural Studies, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
2015 (*) - Art and Work (senior undergraduate seminar), Division of Art History and Cultural Studies, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
2013 and 2015 (*) - Art and Money (senior undergraduate seminar), Division of Art History and Cultural Studies, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
2014 (*) - Debts, Real and Imagined (senior undergraduate seminar), Division of Art History and Cultural Studies, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
2013-2014 (*) - Writing for the Arts (junior undergraduate lecture/seminar), Division of Art History and Cultural Studies, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
2025 - Alejandro Franco Briones, external examiner, PhD Communication Studies and Media Arts, McMaster University
2025 - Deanna Lloyd, external examiner, Ed.D, Educational Sustainability, University of Wisconsin.
2024 - Stella Lawson, major project supervisor, MA Social Justice Studies, Lakehead University.
2024 - Sam Cousin, major project supervisor, MA Social Justice Studies, Lakehead University.
2023 - Christopher Petersen, major project supervisor, MA Social Justice Studies, Lakehead University.
2022 - Tina Munroe, major project supervisor, MA English, Lakehead University.
2022 - Anna Mirzayan, external examiner, PhD Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, Western University.
2021 - Holly Tsun Haggarty, PhD Eduction, Lakehead University.
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