Max Haiven, Author at Public Seminar

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Art, Research and Action Against Debt’s Digital Empire

An introduction

April 4, 2019 • by Max Haiven, Enda Brophy and Benjamin Anderson

This article is the introduction to a series of texts published on Public Seminar in the lead-up to the Digital/Debt/Empire symposium in Vancouver in late April 2019, convened by Benjamin Anderson, Enda Brophy and Max Haiven. Throughout the history of capitalism, debt has been a key weapon of colonialism and imperialism. Examples include the ruinous ...

Art, Research and Action Against Debt’s Digital Empire

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Psychogeographies of the Financial Imaginary

Uncovering the tax havens hidden in plain sight through counter-financial dérive

July 13, 2018 • by Max Haiven and RYBN.ORG

An interview with RYBN.ORG Max Haiven: During our the recent Navigating the City walking tour of the City of London in April you were using the Offshore Tour Operator, an open-source device you developed as part of your The Great Offshore project which seeks to make sense of the complex web of physical and virtual offshore ...

Psychogeographies of the Financial Imaginary

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Confronting Financialization Demands a Radical Cultural Politics

An excerpt from Cultures of Financialization

September 18, 2017 • by Max Haiven

Rather than (or in addition to) castigating finance as purely the realm of capitalist excess, greed, cruelty and extortion, we may also need to see finance, and the broader processes of financialization, as both symptomatic and revelatory of some deeper, more profound and potent truths about our society. Financialization is, ...

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A Utopia for Money

A visit to the secretive art warehouse at the Singapore airport

April 27, 2017 • by Max Haiven

I have visited money’s utopia: it is not only a utopia for those with money, but a utopia for money itself. Sequestered in the winding roads of an industrial park, next to the airport tarmac of one of Asia’s busiest airports, a mere block away from the garrison of the border ...