Billionaires & Guillotines 2026 tour
Hi! My name is Max and I’m the designer of Billionaires & Guillotines, a new board game from Pluto Press, coming out early in 2026. … Read more
Capitalism Cheats (Finance & Society)
A cleaned-up version of this paper will appear in Finance and Society Capitalism Cheats: Three Moments of Normalized Swindling Max Haiven, Canada Research Chair in … Read more
What are antifascist games? (CFP)
In many places around the world, the fascist threat is rising. Far right, neonationalist and ultra-conservative parties, politicians, and pundits have taken advantage of growing … Read more
Towards a theory of the playgrom: Deep and dark playbor and the work of fascism (Media Theory)
An article for Media Theory about playgroms: “an idiom of fascistic mob violence that emerges within but that also exceeds a digitalized, financialized and gamified mode of capitalism”
It’s all a Game, and the Game is Deadly Real (Making & Breaking)
For the Spring 2025 issue of Making & Breaking, I’ve offered a snapshot of some of the ideas from my forthcoming book The Player and the Played: Gamification, Financialization and (anti-)Fascism.
Radical Gaming (Tribune)
The critical potential of games is that they speak in unique and powerful ways to working people who are struggling under a gamified form of capitalism.
What is the Antifascist Game? (London Symposium, July 11)
Join other players, makers, thinkers and organizers in London on 11 July 2025 for a gathering to debate (anti-)fascism and games
All Games are Political (Jacobin)
A short article for Jacobin about the scandal surrounding the game Daybreak and the need to rethink the politics of (board) games
Fascist Dreams, Antifascist Awakenings (study workshop – 25-29 May)
Join Max Haiven and Sarah Stein Lubrano May 25-29 for a study workshop in Palermo
