Max Haiven is an assistant professor in the division of Art History and Critical Studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada. He is the author of many academic articles on themes including the financialization of society and culture, contemporary social movements, the radical imagination, and cultural and social theory.He is the co-author of The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity (Zed 2014) and author of Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life (2014). More information can be found at maxhaiven.com.

Haiven's provocative book does justice to a topic that has been too long neglected. He not only explains the constraints that are everywhere placed on our political imagination, but also makes a strong case for transcending them.

• Introduction: Crises of the Imagination1. Reimagining Value2. Publics, Commons, Occupations3. The Crisis of the Financialized Imagination4. Within and Beyond the Edu-factory5. The Enclosure of History, the Debt of the Past, the Commons of Memory6. The Enclosure of Creativity7. What is the Radical Imagination?Conclusion: Fatalism and its Discontents

Max Haiven is an assistant professor in the division of Art History and Critical Studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada. He is the author of many academic articles on themes including the financialization of society and culture, contemporary social movements, the radical imagination, and cultural and social theory.He is the co-author of The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity (Zed 2014) and author of Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life (2014). More information can be found at maxhaiven.com.

Haiven's provocative book does justice to a topic that has been too long neglected. He not only explains the constraints that are everywhere placed on our political imagination, but also makes a strong case for transcending them.

• Introduction: Crises of the Imagination1. Reimagining Value2. Publics, Commons, Occupations3. The Crisis of the Financialized Imagination4. Within and Beyond the Edu-factory5. The Enclosure of History, the Debt of the Past, the Commons of Memory6. The Enclosure of Creativity7. What is the Radical Imagination?Conclusion: Fatalism and its Discontents

Max Haiven is an assistant professor in the division of Art History and Critical Studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada. He is the author of many academic articles on themes including the financialization of society and culture, contemporary social movements, the radical imagination, and cultural and social theory.He is the co-author of The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity (Zed 2014) and author of Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life (2014). More information can be found at maxhaiven.com.

Haiven's provocative book does justice to a topic that has been too long neglected. He not only explains the constraints that are everywhere placed on our political imagination, but also makes a strong case for transcending them.

• Introduction: Crises of the Imagination1. Reimagining Value2. Publics, Commons, Occupations3. The Crisis of the Financialized Imagination4. Within and Beyond the Edu-factory5. The Enclosure of History, the Debt of the Past, the Commons of Memory6. The Enclosure of Creativity7. What is the Radical Imagination?Conclusion: Fatalism and its Discontents