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”
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.
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.
Join other players, makers, thinkers and organizers in London on 11 July 2025 for a gathering to debate (anti-)fascism and games
A short article for Jacobin about the scandal surrounding the game Daybreak and the need to rethink the politics of (board) games
Join Max Haiven and Sarah Stein Lubrano May 25-29 for a study workshop in Palermo
An Unconventional London Symposium on Financialisation and Truth-bending
A free print-at-home board game for 3-4 players about what makes conspiracy theories so fun… and so dangerous!
Sense & Solidarity is pleased to present What Do We Want?, a podcast about the weird, wild and wonderful things that draw social movements together… … Read more
