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Dr Max Haiven

Max Haiven will be a Senior Visiting Research Fellow from 15 November 2024 to 15 May 2025..

Max Haiven is a writer and teacher and Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination. His most recent books are Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire (2022), Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts (2020) and Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization (2018). Haiven is editor of VAGABONDS, a series of short, radical books from Pluto Press. He teaches at Lakehead University, where he directs the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL). 

During Max’s fellowship at the IAS, he will be working on a book project tentatively titled The Player and the Played: Gamification, Financialization and (anti-)Fascism and collaborating with designers, activists and scholars across many disciplines to explore analogue games as platforms for critique and intervention.