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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Capitalism Cheats (Finance & Society)
The following essay will appear in a forthcoming issue of Finance and Society Capitalism cheats: Three moments of normalized swindling Max HaivenCanada Research Chair 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.
Radical Gaming (Tribune)
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.
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
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.