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Max Haiven is a leading Canadian scholar whose work interrogates the intersections of culture, media, and social justice. His research explores how values and power are constructed and challenged within society through artistic and communicative platforms. Haiven's approach is deeply connected to action-oriented initiatives striving for a more equitable world.
- 2022
- 2020
Revenge Capitalism
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Capitalism is in a profound state of crisis. Beyond the mere dispassionate cruelty of 'ordinary' structural violence, it appears today as a global system bent on reckless economic revenge; its expression found in mass incarceration, climate chaos, unpayable debt, pharmaceutical violence and the relentless degradation of common life.In Revenge Capitalism, Max Haiven argues that this economic vengeance helps us explain the culture and politics of revenge we see in society more broadly. Moving from the history of colonialism and its continuing effects today, he examines the opioid crisis in the US, the growth of 'surplus populations' worldwide and unpacks the central paradigm of unpayable debts - both as reparations owed, and as a methodology of oppression.Revenge Capitalism offers no easy answers, but is a powerful call to the radical imagination.