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It’s all a Game, and the Game is Deadly Real (Making & Breaking)

May 1, 2025May 1, 2025

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.

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags culture, fascism, games, revenge, theory

What is the Antifascist Game? (London Symposium, July 11)

March 31, 2025March 31, 2025

Join other players, makers, thinkers and organizers in London on 11 July 2025 for a gathering to debate (anti-)fascism and games

Categories AnnouncementsTags fascism, games, race and racism, revenge, social movements

Fascist Dreams, Antifascist Awakenings (study workshop – 25-29 May)

March 16, 2025March 13, 2025

Join Max Haiven and Sarah Stein Lubrano May 25-29 for a study workshop in Palermo

Categories AnnouncementsTags fascism, revenge, social movements

Comrade Orca (board game)

February 7, 2025January 31, 2025

A silly party game of interspecies revenge and cooperation

Categories GamesTags board games, revenge

Capitalism’s sacrifice of humanity

September 2, 2024

A 3-part podcast mini-series produced in collaboration with Free City Radio

Categories Audio and videoTags colonialism and empire, revenge, social movements, theory

Care as Revenge, Revenge as Care: Two Riddles

August 25, 2023August 25, 2023

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

Categories Public EssaysTags revenge

From financialization to derivative fascisms (Social Text)

June 23, 2023June 22, 2023

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

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

“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

Whither Harmony Square?: Conspiracy Games in Late Capitalism (LA Review of Books)

March 16, 2023November 14, 2021

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

Categories Public EssaysTags conspiracies and conspiracy theories, financialization, games, revenge

Revenge Against Revenge: Biden’s Revenge Politics and “The Cure at Troy” (LA Review of Books)

April 29, 2022March 8, 2021

This essay first appeared on March 8, 2021 in The Los Angeles Review of Books: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/revenge-against-revenge-bidens-revenge-politics-and-the-cure-at-troy/ An audio version can be found here. WITH JOE … Read more

Categories Audio and video, Public EssaysTags literature, revenge, United States
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