Max Haiven (and company)

A recording of the essay "Revenge Against Revenge?: Biden’s Revenge Politics and The Cure at Troy" by Max Haiven, published in the Los Angeles Review of Books in March of 2021 - https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/revenge-against-revenge-bidens-revenge-politics-and-the-cure-at-troy/

A launch of Max Haiven's new book Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts, part of the ambitious 'Radical May' programme ​​of round tables, talks and debates around the ideas that will transform the world to come. This dialogue takes 'Revenge Capitalism' as an impetus for a wide-ranging conversation about politics, literature, film, poetry and society.

Phanuel Antwi works with dance, is a poet as well as an assistant professor in the Department of English language and literatures at University of British Columbia.

Max Haiven is Canada Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice at Lakehead University. -------------

FURTHER READING: 'Revenge Capitalism' is published on May 20th. You can pre-order your copy from plutobooks.com. To get 40% off the cover price, enter the code 'REVENGE40' at the checkout. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340...

RADICAL MAY: Check out the rest of the Radical May programme for more talks from a plethora of international radical publishers. https://radicalmay.literalbcn.cat/

"The GameStop saga is not the revenge against finance we deserve" by Max Haiven was published by Truthout on February 3, 2021 --> https://truthout.org/audio/the-gamestop-saga-is-not-the-revenge-against-finance-we-deserve/

"The power, potential and peril of the GameStop affair," an essay by Max Haiven, was published in ROAR Magazine February 3, 2021 --> https://roarmag.org/essays/gamestop-affair-financialized-resistance/

A brief, eight minute overview of Max Haiven's book Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts (Pluto Press 2020), an excerpt form in interview with Scott Stoneman on Pretty Heady Stuff.

The audio from The University of the Phoenix's 2019 performance "The Order of the Immortal Stranger) at Berliner Gazette's MORE WORLD conference.

Opioid drugs were widely and readily prescribed, and hundreds of thousands of people became addicted and died. What explains the opioid epidemic in the U.S.? What kind of pain were these drugs taken to alleviate – and what is the root of such suffering? Max Haiven draws connections between the opioid crisis and racial politics, corporate malfeasance, the Opium Wars, and neoliberalism’s impact on our psyches.

Originally broadcast on KPFA's Against the Grain --> https://kpfa.org/episode/against-the-grain-march-9-2020/

On this episode of the Order of Unmanageable Risks: A Podcast about Capitalism and Anxiety hosts Aris and Max talk with UCL student and Common Anxieties Project summer research assistant Anna Reid about her examination of the way the mainstream media and students themselves speak about the crisis of mental health on UK university campuses.

This article by Max Haiven was published in ROAR Magazine September 24, 2020 --> https://roarmag.org/essays/nature-revenge-capitalism/

Lecture by Max Haiven on themes of his 2020 book Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts. Recorded in November of 2019 at the Thunder Bay Public Library.

This lecture mentions a particular scene from Herman Melville's Moby Dick, which can be seen from 47:07-58:13 of this film rendition of the book: https://youtu.be/e9DXkSZNG2k?t=2827

The book is available from Pluto Press: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340562/revenge-capitalism/