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The Player and the Played: From Gamed Capitalism to Twenty-First Century Fascism (opens the original)
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A provocative examination of the ways our economy has been rigged by financialization, and the importance of games to our dangerous political moment.In an age when capitalism feels like an unwinnable game, extreme reactionary ideas and politics are on the rise. The Hunger Games, Game of Thrones, Squid Game, and much of reality TV are cultural reflections of a society of relentless, lonely competition, where each of us must become a player: a savvy risk-taker, a miniature corporation of one. But
The perfect perfect bastards (opens the original)
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This month, my academic article “Cheating and the fascistic public pedagogy of gamed capitalism: Pyramid schemes, sexist advice, misogynist scams and the perfect perfect bastard” was published by the Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies. You can download it here for free (the first 50 visitors), or read it online on my website.The argument, in a nutshell.Cheating h
Games Against Borders (opens the original)
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On 30 October 2026, we invite game-makers, artists, scholars, thinkers, and others to assemble in central London for a one-day facilitated symposium on the topic: Games against borders.This event is a sequel to the 2025 symposium “What is the Antifascist Game,” organized by RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab in partnership with the Games Transformed Festival for radical games and play, which this year will take place on from October 30 until November 1 and will be dedicated to racial and mi
Will we survive the 4th world war? Will we decolonize money? (opens the original)
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This summer sees the release of two new books in the VAGABONDS series I edit for Pluto Press. They are on sale right now, until July 22Decolonizing Money: The Promise of Abolishing the US Dollarby Julio LinaresBuy it from Pluto PressIt has been truly transformative to work with my friend Julio Linares on this book, which is genuinely original and, to my mind, fulfils the faith that Julio’s mentor David
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