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Exploits of Play: A Podcast about Games and Capitalism

February 26, 2024February 26, 2024

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

Categories Audio and videoTags culture, financialization, games, imagination, social movements

Color, corporations and other fictions

February 19, 2024February 19, 2024

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

Categories Public EssaysTags art, colonialism and empire, culture, imagination, race and racism

Financial capital and ghosts of empire (editorial essay)

February 7, 2025January 25, 2024

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

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags colonialism and empire, financialization, race and racism

Help us fund WHAT DO WE WANT? A podcast about changing hearts and minds…

December 12, 2023December 12, 2023

Hi! I hate to fundraise, but I love this project and I’d like to see it become a reality. I really think it will be … Read more

Categories Announcements, Audio and videoTags imagination, social movements

10 Years of the Radical Imagination podcast mini-series

October 24, 2023October 24, 2023

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

Categories Audio and videoTags race and racism, social movements, the radical imagination

Why play games with conspiracies? (ephemera)

October 2, 2023September 26, 2023

A reflection on creating and playing CLUE-ANON, a board game about why conspiracy theories are so fun… and so dangerous.

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags conspiracies and conspiracy theories, games

Amazon Workers’ Sci-Fi Writing Is Imagining a World After Amazon

September 7, 2023September 7, 2023

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.

Categories Public EssaysTags Amazon

Care as Revenge, Revenge as Care: Two Riddles

August 25, 2023August 25, 2023

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

Categories Public EssaysTags revenge

Mobilizing Hearts and Minds (free course, fall 2023)

August 15, 2023August 15, 2023

A free 12-week course for social movement protagonists about how minds change, drawing on critical theory, cognitive science and activist knowledge.

Categories AnnouncementsTags imagination, social movements

The Workers’ Speculative Society podcast

July 11, 2023July 11, 2023

Launching a new podcast about the future Amazon is building and the workers, writers and communities that are fighting for different worlds

Categories Audio and videoTags Amazon, podcasts
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