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