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Max Haiven

@maxhaiven.bsky.social

Propagandist for an impossible country. Two letters away from a tax haven. Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination. Views are probably some else's because that's how ideology works.

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Ali Rıza Taşkale@alirizataskale.bsky.social · 3w ago

Tech billionaires didn’t misread science fiction. They performed an edit: keeping the frontier, the visionary, the chrome; cutting the public institution, the collective, and the warning. Every. Single. Time. My new piece is now up in Aeon.

Aeon Magazine@aeon.co · 3w ago

Tech billionaires like to claim their work is inspired by science fiction, but in truth, they are using its ‘chrome-plated aesthetic’ as a fig leaf to further what the social theorist Ali Rıza Taşkale labels ‘reactionary futurism’

Materialist Game Labs@materialist-games.bsky.social · 4w ago

New episode alert! @lagomhygge.bsky.social talks to @maxhaiven.bsky.social about antifascist games, games as tools for organizing, and the connection between play and radical imagination. You don't want to miss this one. soundcloud.com/materialistg...

Märklighetstroget - episode 26: The Antifascist Game

Thom talks to Max Haiven. Recorded at the Organize! Movement Meetup 2026: https://www.organizemovementmeetup.org/ There's a bit of namedropping and referencing in this one, so here's some links. — M

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The Earthcare Fieldcast@earthcareradio.bsky.social · last mo.

World! We're back with some burning new episodes! 🔥 First up: @maxhaiven.bsky.social in conversation with @manuelaz.bsky.social about the latter's new book: The Plot is on Fire. A book in fierce metabolism with this podcast! ❤️‍🔥 Tune in, enjoy, get reading and plotting soundcloud.com/earthcarefie...

19. The Plot is on Fire: Care Struggles after Progress, Plantation and Patriarchy

As myths of progress and modernisation collapse in the relentless polycrisis of our time, how do we strengthen other plots—in community, practice and struggle? How do we come together as movements for

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Max Haiven@maxhaiven.bsky.social · last mo.

in my #boardgame 🫍 COMRADE ORCA 🫍 you and your friends play a pod of vengeful killer #whales taking out billionaires' yachts. It's kind of like coop Battleship, but you can only use whale sounds to communicate! And yes, you get to wear a salmon on your head. it's in dev now, crowdfunding next year!

Max Haiven@maxhaiven.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My new book THE PLAYER AND THE PLAYED is out this September with @mitpress.bsky.social and it will be open access! Meanwhile, if you would like an advanced reader copy for the purposes of writing a review etc please get in touch. Also please share it with your favorite podcasts and publications.

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Max Haiven@maxhaiven.bsky.social · 2mo ago

An author can only dream of such deep and considered engagement with their work. It's quite moving to have one's writing addressed with such comradely rigour. I fear that the reviewer is justified in many of their critiques of Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire. The review thickens the discussion.

New Socialist@newsocialist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Max Haiven's Palm Oil, published by @plutopress.bsky.social, is bracing & engaging. However, the pressure to ascribe agency to palm oil, & all the consumer goods in which it’s an ingredient, leads to some eyebrow-raising claims argues @hereliesjustin.bsky.social. newsocialist.org.uk/missing-the-...

Max Haiven@maxhaiven.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I'm writing a short book for community organizers and other people about how to conceptualize fascism now. It's organized around questions like "how is fascism related to capitalism?" and "is fascism the extension of colonialism?" What questions do you feel should be in such a book?

Max Haiven@maxhaiven.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My name appears on the front page of Wikipedia today as part of a featured article on one of the best political short stories. My work on this beautiful planet is done and I shall be heading to the stars. It's been a pleasure, everyone.

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