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Art Art & Politics

Art after Money, Money after Art

Creative Strategies against Financialization

by (author) Max Haiven

Publisher
Between the Lines
Initial publish date
Sep 2018
Category
Art & Politics, Free Enterprise, Political Advocacy, Criticism & Theory
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781771133982
    Publish Date
    Sep 2018
    List Price
    $29.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781771133999
    Publish Date
    Jun 2020
    List Price
    $28.99 USD

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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.

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 that 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.

Written for artists, activists, and scholars, this book makes an urgent call to unleash the power of the radical imagination by any media necessary.

About the author

Max Haiven is Research Chair in culture, media, and social justice at Lakehead University. His books include Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power, Cultures of Financialization, and The Radical Imagination.

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