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Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization

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We like to imagine that money and art are old enemies, but beneath the veneer of creative utopianism is a dark capitalist underbelly. To expose the fraught intersection of art and money, Max Haiven proposes we examine how money is mobilized in art.
            Even as he shows how imaginary money and the so-called “creative economy” extract an artist’s potential, Haiven identifies and assesses a range of creative strategies for mocking, decrypting, hacking, sabotaging, and exiting capitalism through art. Focusing on the ways contemporary artists understand, imagine, and contend with material and immaterial forms of cash, debt, and credit, Haiven reveals the potential for creativity and resistance in a world dominated by financialization.
            Written for artists, activists, and scholars, this book takes seriously the need to understand and resist capitalism in an age of corporate abuse and exploitation.
 

288 pages, Paperback

Published October 15, 2018

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Max Haiven

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Max Haiven is Canada Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice at Lakehead University in Northwest Ontario and co-director of the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL).

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May 15, 2026
Max Haiven untersucht in Art After Money, Money After Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization die prekäre Beziehung zwischen Kunst und Kapital und entlarvt die Schattenseiten der sogenannten kreativen Ökonomie. Er zeigt, wie finanzielle Logiken nicht nur den Wert von Kunst bestimmen, sondern auch die Kreativität selbst vereinnahmen. Gleichzeitig identifiziert er künstlerische Strategien des Widerstands – von Hacking bis Sabotage –, die sich der totalen Kommerzialisierung entziehen. Philosophisch ist das Werk eine Kritik an der Ökonomisierung der Fantasie und ein Plädoyer für alternative Formen des Zusammenlebens.
Haiven seziert die Kunstwelt als eines der letzten Labore des Kapitalismus, in dem selbst Widerstand zur Ware wird. Das Buch bietet einen schmerzhaften Blick auf die Prekarität kreativer Arbeit in Zeiten totaler Finanzialisierung. Wenn Kunst nur noch als Investment gilt, verliert sie ihre Freiheit und wird zu dekorativem Kapital.
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August 2, 2025
totally took me by surprise - one of my favorite books of the year so far
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