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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

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

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

Notes towards a theory of risk management as human sacrifice (and vice versa) (Schemas of Uncertainty)

December 29, 2022April 21, 2022

An essay on racial capitalism, empire and the gory capitalist cosmology

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags colonialism and empire, financialization, race and racism, theory

“Is Marx still a threat?” Extrablatt (Arts of the Working Class)

April 29, 2022December 11, 2021

In February of 2022, the German Historical Museum in Berlin will open an exhibition on “Karl Marx and Capitalism.” They asked the Berlin-based bimonthly newspaper … Read more

Categories Edited CollectionsTags social movements, theory

A review of J. Lorand Matory’s The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud and the Gods Black People Make (Journal of Cultural Economy)

April 29, 2022July 2, 2021

This review of Review: J. Lorand Matory’s The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud and the Gods Black People Make will appear later this year in the … Read more

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags book reviews, colonialism and empire, race and racism, theory

Money and art: The worst of friends, the best of enemies

July 16, 2021June 9, 2021

The following essay appears in English and Romanian a special issue (#48/49) of the highly-regarded Romanian journal ARTA,  edited by the artist Dan Mihălțianu, whose … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags art, money, theory

Thirteen Theses Toward a Materialist Theory of Revenge Capitalism

March 9, 2021August 31, 2020

My short essay, “Thirteen Theses Toward a Materialist Theory of Revenge Capitalism,” has appeared in a new edited collection: Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left … Read more

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags revenge, theory

Revenge Fantasy or Avenging Imaginary? (e-flux)

April 29, 2022May 22, 2020

E-Flux has published an edited excerpt from my book Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts. … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags revenge, social movements, theory
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