Max Haiven is Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice at Lakehead University, Canada. His books include Art after Money, Money after Art (Pluto, 2018), Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power (Zed Books, 2004), Cultures of Financialization (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014) and the Radical Imagination (Zed Books, 2014).

• List of figures AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: we want revenge1. Toward a materialist theory of revenge Interlude: Shylock’s vindication, or Venice’s bonds? 2. The work of art in an age of unpayable debts: social reproduction, geopolitics, and settler colonialism Interlude: Ahab’s coin, or Moby Dick’s currencies? 3. Money as a medium of vengeance: colonial accumulation and proletarian practices Interlude: Khloé Kardashian’s revenge body, or the Zapatisa nobody? 4. Our Opium Wars: pain, race, and the ghosts of empire Interlude: V's vendetta, or Joker's retribution? 5. The dead zone: financialized nihilism, toxic wealth, and vindictive technologies Conclusion: revenge fantasy or avenging imaginary? Coda: 11 theses on revenge capitalism Postscript: after the pandemic – against the vindictive normal Notes Index

'Perhaps the most theoretically creative radical thinker of the moment'