From financialization to 21st century fascisms (For Magazine)
The following essay was published in June 2026 in the 13th issue of For Magazine. To understand the shocking and dangerous rise of extreme-right politics … Read more
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The speculative imagination within, against and beyond Amazon (Distinktion)
The following essay has appeared in Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory. The speculative imagination within, against and beyond Amazon: the Worker as Futurist project in … Read more
What are antifascist games? (CFP)
In many places around the world, the fascist threat is rising. Far right, neonationalist and ultra-conservative parties, politicians, and pundits have taken advantage of growing … Read more
Towards a theory of the playgrom: Deep and dark playbor and the work of fascism (Media Theory)
An article for Media Theory about playgroms: “an idiom of fascistic mob violence that emerges within but that also exceeds a digitalized, financialized and gamified mode of capitalism”
It’s all a Game, and the Game is Deadly Real (Making & Breaking)
For the Spring 2025 issue of Making & Breaking, I’ve offered a snapshot of some of the ideas from my forthcoming book The Player and the Played: Gamification, Financialization and (anti-)Fascism.
What is the Antifascist Game? (London Symposium, July 11)
Join other players, makers, thinkers and organizers in London on 11 July 2025 for a gathering to debate (anti-)fascism and games
Fascist Dreams, Antifascist Awakenings (study workshop – 25-29 May)
Join Max Haiven and Sarah Stein Lubrano May 25-29 for a study workshop in Palermo