Unwriting Amazon
The following short essay appears as part of Research and Teaching with Speculative Fiction: Transdisciplinary Readings and Methods, edited by Sarah E. Truman and available … Read more
The following short essay appears as part of Research and Teaching with Speculative Fiction: Transdisciplinary Readings and Methods, edited by Sarah E. Truman and available … Read more
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
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.
An Unconventional London Symposium on Financialisation and Truth-bending
Sense & Solidarity is pleased to present What Do We Want?, a podcast about the weird, wild and wonderful things that draw social movements together… … Read more
An interview about the Worker as Futurist project and its edited collection, The World After Amazon: Stories from Amazon Workers
What is the power of corporate storytelling today, especially storytelling about the future, particularly in the hands of firms like Amazon with the power to radically transform life as we know it? And what does this power imply for the struggle of workers and communities not only to defend their rights in the here-and-now, but to reclaim the right to determine the shape of the future?
9 short stories from rank-and-file Amazon workers about the World After Amazon, available in print, online and as a podcast/audiobook
A copy-edited version of the following paper, “Writing Back Against Amazon’s Empire: Science Fiction, Corporate Storytelling, and the Dignity of the Workers’ Word,” by Max … Read more
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