HeyJaredThe World After Amazon: Stories from Amazon Workers
The World After Amazon is a collection of 9 short speculative stories, written by rank-and-file workers at the corporation that has transformed the way we read and so much more.Amazon's sci-fi propaganda tells the story of a company using cutting-edge technology to deliver a…
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Introduction to The Player and the Played: From Gamed Capitalism to 21st c. Fascism, by Max Haiven (opens the original)
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This is an open access book, published September 15 2026 by MIT Press. 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 in a gamed economy we players feel played, and new forms of fascism promise ha
The Plot is on Fire - a conversation with Manuela Zechner (opens the original)
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On 27 May 2026, Max Haiven sat down with Manuela Zechner at Housman's books in London to discuss the latter's newly published book The Plot is on Fire: Care Struggles after Progress, Plantation and Patriarchy. From the book's publicity: As myths of progress and modernisation collapse in the relentless polycrisis of our time, how do we strengthen other plots—in community, practice and struggle? How do we come together as movements for earthcare? This book weaves stories, proposals, and analyses a
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