Books by Max Haiven

Capitalism has become a system of economic revenge, meted out against oppressed populations around the globe.

We imagine that art and money are old enemies, but this myth actually reproduces a violent system of global capitalism and prevents us from imagining and building alternatives.*BR**BR*From the chaos unleashed by the 'imaginary' money in financial markets to the new forms of exploitation enabled by the 'creative economy' to the way art has become the plaything of the world's plutocrats, our era of financialization demands we question our romantic assumptions about art and money. By exploring the way contemporary artists engage with cash, debt and credit, Haiven identifies and assesses a range of creative strategies for mocking, sabotaging, exiting, decrypting and hacking capitalism today.*BR**BR*Written for artists, activists and scholars, this book makes an urgent call to unleash the power of the radical imagination by any media necessary.

"Emerging from the Radical Imagination Project, a social movement research initiative based in Halifax, Canada, "What Moves Us" brings together a diverse group of scholar-activists and movement based thinkers and practitioners to reflect on the relationship between the radical imagination and radical social change. Combining political biography with movement-based histories, these activists provide critical insights into the opportunities and challenges that confront struggles for social justice today. In original essays and interviews, these radical thinkers from across Canada and beyond contemplate the birth of their own radical consciousness and the political and intellectual commitments that animate their activism."--

How do we move beyond austerity and the colonization of creativity?