There is a world after Amazon, or the radical joy and need to imagine together (interview)
An interview about the Worker as Futurist project and its edited collection, The World After Amazon: Stories from Amazon Workers
Amazon as dystopian world-builder (and its enemies) – Cyberflaneur
What is the power of corporate storytelling today, especially storytelling about the future, particularly in the hands of firms like Amazon with the power to radically transform life as we know it? And what does this power imply for the struggle of workers and communities not only to defend their rights in the here-and-now, but to reclaim the right to determine the shape of the future?
The World After Amazon: Stories from Amazon Workers
9 short stories from rank-and-file Amazon workers about the World After Amazon, available in print, online and as a podcast/audiobook
Capitalism’s sacrifice of humanity
A 3-part podcast mini-series produced in collaboration with Free City Radio
Billionaires and Guillotines
Play 2-5 aspiring plutocrats trying to snatch the wealth of a world before your actions trigger a revolution. Coming Spring 2025 from Pluto Press.
Writing Back Against Amazon’s Empire (Triple-C)
A copy-edited version of the following paper, “Writing Back Against Amazon’s Empire: Science Fiction, Corporate Storytelling, and the Dignity of the Workers’ Word,” by Max … Read more
Mayday Movement (anti-)Academy, Berlin April 29 – May 3, 2024
Sense & Solidarity (a project I run with Sarah Stein Lubrano) is pleased to announce the Mayday Movement (anti-)Academy, a four-day workshop for community organizers, … Read more
Exploits of Play: A Podcast about Games and Capitalism
It has been a treat to work with the wonderful Weird Economies project on a new 10-episode podcast, “The Exploits of Play,” which will be … Read more
Color, corporations and other fictions
An edited version of this essay appeared in a catalogue published to accompany Danish artist Hannibal Andersen’s 2022 exhibition The Abstract Expression of Privatization. In … Read more
Financial capital and ghosts of empire (editorial essay)
The following text was published in January 2024 and is the editorial introduction to a special section of the Journal of Cultural Economy on Finance … Read more