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.
The critical potential of games is that they speak in unique and powerful ways to working people who are struggling under a gamified form of capitalism.
Join other players, makers, thinkers and organizers in London on 11 July 2025 for a gathering to debate (anti-)fascism and games
A short article for Jacobin about the scandal surrounding the game Daybreak and the need to rethink the politics of (board) games
A free print-at-home board game for 3-4 players about what makes conspiracy theories so fun… and so dangerous!
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.
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
A reflection on creating and playing CLUE-ANON, a board game about why conspiracy theories are so fun… and so dangerous.
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
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