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
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All Games are Political (Jacobin)
A short article for Jacobin about the scandal surrounding the game Daybreak and the need to rethink the politics of (board) games
Clue-Anon (board game)
A free print-at-home board game for 3-4 players about what makes conspiracy theories so fun… and so dangerous!
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.
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
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.
Board games as social media: Towards an enchanted inquiry of digital capitalism
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
Clue-Anon, gaming conspiracy, and the anti-authoritarian imagination
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
Dangerous Play in an age of Technofinance (TOPIA)
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
Whither Harmony Square?: Conspiracy Games in Late Capitalism (LA Review of Books)
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