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conspiracies and conspiracy theories

Clue-Anon (board game)

February 7, 2025January 7, 2025

A free print-at-home board game for 3-4 players about what makes conspiracy theories so fun… and so dangerous!

Categories GamesTags conspiracies and conspiracy theories, games

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

Sacrifice (Finance Aesthetics)

April 19, 2023April 19, 2023

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

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags colonialism and empire, conspiracies and conspiracy theories, financialization

Clue-Anon, gaming conspiracy, and the anti-authoritarian imagination

March 16, 2023March 5, 2023

An edited version of following text will appear later in 2023 as part of the Global Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Counterstrategies, published by the Rosa … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags authoritarianism, conspiracies and conspiracy theories, games

An interview with Wu Ming 1 about the Qanon conspiracy fantasy, collective creativity, and the (ab)uses of enchantment (Theory, Culture, and Society)

September 26, 2022September 26, 2022

An edited version of this interview will appear in a future issue of Theory, Culture, and Society. It is a transcribed and edited version of … Read more

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags conspiracies and conspiracy theories, culture, imagination

Dangerous Play in an age of Technofinance (TOPIA)

March 16, 2023June 3, 2022

The following text, which has not yet been copyedited or proofed, was co-authored by Max Haiven, AT Kingsmith and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and is forthcoming in … Read more

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags conspiracies and conspiracy theories, financialization, games, social movements

Whither Harmony Square?: Conspiracy Games in Late Capitalism (LA Review of Books)

March 16, 2023November 14, 2021

The following piece by Conspiracy Games and Countergames reseachers Max Haiven, A. T. Kingsmith and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou was printed in the Los Angeles Review of … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags conspiracies and conspiracy theories, financialization, games, revenge

Conspiracies and Countergames Online Summer Institute (19/7-05/8)

March 5, 2023June 9, 2021

Hosted by RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab What? A three-week online Summer Institute bringing together artists, activists, scholars, students, gamers and weridos to learn … Read more

Categories AnnouncementsTags conspiracies and conspiracy theories

Conspiracy Games and Countergames podcast

June 2, 2021June 3, 2021

Launched in June 2021, this is a podcast, research and intervention project about conspiracies fantasies in a gamified capitalist world, led by Max Haiven, A.T. … Read more

Categories Audio and videoTags conspiracies and conspiracy theories, podcast
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