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Board games as social media: Towards an enchanted inquiry of digital capitalism

April 19, 2023March 16, 2023

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

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags culture, games, imagination

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

From financialization to derivative fascisms (Social Text)

September 16, 2022September 16, 2022

The following article has been accepted for publication in Social Text 155, due out in paper in June of 2023. Abstract The last 40 years … Read more

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags financialization, imagination, revenge, theory

CBC interview on Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire and other interviews and reviews

May 29, 2022May 29, 2022

Last month, my book Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire was published by Pluto Books. Since then a number of interviews and reviews have come … Read more

Categories InterviewsTags colonialism and empire, imagination, Palm Oil

Is Amazon the Borg? We Asked Their Workers (LA Review of Books)

May 6, 2022May 7, 2022

This essay was published in the Los Angeles Review of Books on May 7, 2022. Is Amazon the Borg? We Asked Their Workers By Max … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags Amazon, imagination, social movements

A reflection on the radical imagination: From finance to social movements to games (Junkyard)

April 29, 2022April 27, 2022

A reflection on how I came to be fascinated by the power of the imagination for The Junkyard: A scholarly blog devoted to the study of imagination

Categories Public EssaysTags financialization, imagination, social movements

“Revenge Politics, Revenge Economy, Revenge Culture” dossier (Social Text Periscope)

April 29, 2022April 22, 2022

Text, the venerable journal of critical theory, has published a dossier of short pieces on revenge in their online annex, Periscope

Categories Edited CollectionsTags colonialism and empire, culture, imagination, race and racism, revenge, theory

Our age of uprisings (ROAR Magazine)

April 29, 2022December 15, 2021

I’m very pleased to have contributed a framing article to the ROAR Magazine special issue MOBILIZE!, Published on 15 December 2021. The original can be … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags imagination, social movements

The GameStop saga is not the revenge against finance we deserve (Novara)

April 29, 2022February 3, 2021

My essay “The GameStop Saga Is Not the Revenge Against Finance We Deserve” has been published by Truthout here: https://truthout.org/audio/the-gamestop-saga-is-not-the-revenge-against-finance-we-deserve/ “There’s a catharsis to actually … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags financialization, imagination, revenge

The power, potential and peril of the GameStop affair (ROAR Magazine)

April 29, 2022February 3, 2021

ROAR Magazine has published my essay “The power, potential and peril of the GameStop affair”  –> https://roarmag.org/essays/gamestop-affair-financialized-resistance/   There is an apocryphal story that, in … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags financialization, imagination
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