10 Years of the Radical Imagination podcast mini-series
Ten years ago, Alex Khansnabish and I were putting the finishing touches on a book that would, in 2014, but published by the venerable Zed … Read more
Why play games with conspiracies? (ephemera)
A reflection on creating and playing CLUE-ANON, a board game about why conspiracy theories are so fun… and so dangerous.
Amazon Workers’ Sci-Fi Writing Is Imagining a World After Amazon
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos often talks about humanity starting again on other planets. But a new project funding Amazon workers’ sci-fi writing is imagining how life could be different right here on Earth, in a world without corporate overlords like Bezos.
Care as Revenge, Revenge as Care: Two Riddles
This short text will appear in Thick Press‘s An Encyclopedia of Radical Helping, due out in 2024. 1. First: Under what conditions could care be … Read more
Mobilizing Hearts and Minds (free course, fall 2023)
A free 12-week course for social movement protagonists about how minds change, drawing on critical theory, cognitive science and activist knowledge.
The Workers’ Speculative Society podcast
Launching a new podcast about the future Amazon is building and the workers, writers and communities that are fighting for different worlds
From financialization to derivative fascisms (Social Text)
A slightly updated version of this article has been published in Social Text 155 (2023): https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10383207 Abstract The last 40 years of financialization has laid … Read more
Climate Workers of the World Unite? (BG)
This text was commissioned by the Berliner Gazette for their 2023 project Allied Grounds. It is in English here and German here. Climate Workers of … Read more
Sacrifice (Finance Aesthetics)
An edited version of the following text will be published in 2024 as part of Goldsmiths Press’s Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary, edited by Frederik … Read more
Board games as social media: Towards an enchanted inquiry of digital capitalism
In a world where most people feel caught in an unwinnable game, scholars should move beyond strategies of disenchantment and recognize the power of games