: Creative Strategies Against Financialization, published by Pluto Press in 2018.
by Max Haiven, Art After Money, Money After Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization challenges the myth of art and money as opposing forces, revealing how this narrative perpetuates the exploitation and inequities of global capitalism. In an era dominated by financialization—where art often becomes a tool for plutocratic power and creative economies fuel new forms of labor exploitation—Haiven calls for a radical reimagining of art’s role. Through a critical examination of contemporary artistic practices that engage with themes of money, debt, and credit, the book explores strategies to subvert, resist, and reconfigure capitalism. Aimed at artists, activists, and scholars, it advocates for leveraging the radical imagination to disrupt oppressive systems and envision transformative 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 we question our romantic assumptions about art and money. (see Max Haiven’s website).