Capitalism Cheats (Finance & Society)
A cleaned-up version of this paper will appear in Finance and Society Capitalism Cheats: Three Moments of Normalized Swindling Max Haiven, Canada Research Chair in … Read more
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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.
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
Fascist Dreams, Antifascist Awakenings (study workshop – 25-29 May)
Join Max Haiven and Sarah Stein Lubrano May 25-29 for a study workshop in Palermo
Capitalism’s sacrifice of humanity
A 3-part podcast mini-series produced in collaboration with Free City Radio
Care as Revenge, Revenge as Care: Two Riddles
This short text will appear in Thick Press‘s An Encyclopedia of Radical Helping, due out in 2024. 1. First: Under what conditions could care be … Read more
From financialization to derivative fascisms (Social Text)
A slightly updated version of this article has been published in Social Text 155 (2023): https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10383207 Abstract The last 40 years of financialization has laid … Read more
“Revenge Politics, Revenge Economy, Revenge Culture” dossier (Social Text Periscope)
Text, the venerable journal of critical theory, has published a dossier of short pieces on revenge in their online annex, Periscope
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