Another London-based games event to promote! We're running a Gaming Social Justice workshop on Nov 14th, ft. demos of games like @maxhaiven.bsky.social's Billionaires and Guillotines & @miasmacorp.bsky.social's 1720s masquerade 'em up Molly House www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...

Join @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social and me in Brussels in November for a workshop on the deplorable state of things and what can be done

Come play billionaires vs masses with us at Games Transformed this year! October 10 in Manchester! theworldtransformed.org/twt25/twt25p...

BERLIN: Don't miss next week's "four days of conversation, practical work, and collective reflection on the politics and tactics of pirate care" (Sept 18-21) - aaagit.org/priate_care_... based on the #VAGABONDS book out now from @plutopress.bsky.social

Forum on @nickmirzoeff.bsky.social recent #VAGABONDS book

And here is the schedule for @gamestransformed.bsky.social

Join us this weekend for the @gamestransformed.bsky.social festival in London, celebrating the radical potential of games to transform our world towards the horizon of collective liberation! Saturday night: a live game-show version of Billionaires and Guillotines!

🎮 Panel at Games Transformed 12/07/25 🎮 "From Gamergate to QAnon: How Fascists Use Games" With @maxhaiven.bsky.social @innuendostudios.bsky.social @digital-stranger.bsky.social and Konstanze N'Guessan 📅 13.00-14.30 📍 Ground Floor Event Space #GamesTransformed2025 #AntiFascism #GT25

Fascism and the civil war in the middle class with @maxhaiven.bsky.social :

This is happening tomorrow. Come along!

I'm thrilled to be helping out with the GAMES TRANSFORMED festival this year. Tickets are on sale now and they'll go fast. It'll include a special LIVE gameshow edition of Billionaires and Guillotines!

A reminder to apply to join us in London on July 11 for the symposium on the question WHAT IS THE ANTIFASCIST GAME. Applications due May 17! reimaginingvalue.ca/antifagame/

Berlin friends! ♟️ Join me and others at TRUST on Weds, May 14 to learn about the politics of games and play BILLIONAIRES AND GUILLOTINES! 🤫 And come see @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social and me in conversation about her new book DON'T TALK ABOUT POLITICS on Tues, May 20 at Shakespeare & Sons

"it's all a game, and the game is deadly real." makingandbreaking.org/article/max-...

My essay "It's all a game, and the game is deadly real" on how financialized capitalism incubates gamified fascism, is out now, alongside several fascinating essays, in the 4th issue of Making and Breaking --> makingandbreaking.org

A small May Day victory for me and the team at @plutopress.bsky.social - our board game Billionaires & Guillotines is funded! You can still back the project on Kickstarter til tonight and get a discount. We hope to have games in stores this autumn! billionairesandguillotines.com

Sherryl Vint from UC Riverside and @maxhaiven.bsky.social will be my guests. Huge thanks to Stefan Jacobsen, head of the center, and Andrea Thorup for all the support along the way. Save the date: May 21st. All are welcome! cape.ku.dk/eng/calendar...

here's the billionaires + guillotines kickstarter. i have a little suspicion that lots of you following me will very much enjoy it www.kickstarter.com/projects/plu...

had the most excellent discussion with @maxhaiven.bsky.social & @dannydorling.bsky.social a few weekends ago about max's fantastically raucous boardgame billionaires + guillotines (being kickstarted now!), whether video games can be anti-fascist & play as a radical force youtu.be/W00vEhAcwgg?...

as part of my current "speculative economies" residency at au JUS in Brussels, @maxhaiven.bsky.social will be visiting 28/29 Apr. We'll be launching his new anticapitalist boardgame and going into conversation on gamification, fascism, and the endless Crusade. Read: tribunemag.co.uk/2025/04/radi...

“In this moment of capitalism, most of us feel that our chances of securing a good life are slim, no matter how dutifully we play by the rules.” @maxhaiven.bsky.social creator of Billionaires and Guillotines, for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social tribunemag.co.uk/2025/04/radi...

Very pleased to write for Tribune about games and the radical imagination in a moment of gamified capitalism (and its fascist nightmares), w. words about Billionaires & Guillotines, the game I've made with @plutopress.bsky.social which you can help us crowdfund now. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/04/radi...

Games Transformed THOROUGHLY ENDORSES Billionaires and Guillotines, the new game from @maxhaiven.bsky.social & @plutopress.bsky.social! We were forced to introduce a house rule to legalise the copious amounts of cheating at our table and Max has promised it will make it into the game at release 😎

Very pleased to write for Tribune about games and the radical imagination in a moment of gamified capitalism (and its fascist nightmares), w. words about Billionaires & Guillotines, the game I've made with @plutopress.bsky.social which you can help us crowdfund now. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/04/radi...

Join us!

Join us on Sunday!

🎲THIS SUNDAY🎲 Join @maxhaiven.bsky.social and play Billionaires & Guillotines! Hosted by us, with Weird Economies, RiVAL, and @gamestransformed.bsky.social 🗓️Sun, Apr 13 ⏰6:30pm 📍Pelican House 🎟 buff.ly/SWqtcoa

Come hang out and play a game with us!

"We live in a gamified world run by oligarchs, who fix the games we play so they always win. But with Billionaires & Guillotines we finally get a chance to take our revenge.” My endorsement of @maxhaiven.bsky.social's excellent new game. I've backed it. You should too.

Last day to apply!

Bring your friends together for a fun night of strategy, suspense, and, well… class warfare:

Join us in London!

Alright, comrades, shuffle up and seize the means of play! Billionaires & Guillotines—forget Monopoly—instead of going to jail, the rich get what's coming to them:

Save the date. 12/07/25 #gamestransformed #gamesfestival #radicalgames

Help fund my friend and comrade @maxhaiven.bsky.social ‘s timely board game “Billionaires and Guillotines”! www.kickstarter.com/projects/plu...

"In the board game Billionaires & Guillotines, 2-5 players take on the role of plutocrats vying to grab the wealth of the world before their actions trigger a revolution where they all lose… a lot more than their assets." ⏳ 48h to help us make this a reality! www.kickstarter.com/projects/plu...

Just pre-ordered @maxhaiven.bsky.social's ridiculously fun (and absurdly funny) new board game "Billionaires and Guillotines" — the ludic fix we all needed in this era of oligarchy and social meltdown 🎲💸 www.kickstarter.com/projects/plu...

I just backed @maxhaiven.bsky.social & @plutopress.bsky.social Billionaires & Guillotines card game on Kickstarter. Support it and get one of the early games to play! www.kickstarter.com/projects/plu...

Please fund this generously so I, the designer, can become a good billionaire and change things from the inside... of my deluxe space yacht... in space... while the rest of you stay here to fry on earth. Thank you.

Next Tuesday, come to the launch of Finance Aesthetics hosted by @goldsmithspress.bsky.social w/ @maxhaiven.bsky.social @erosamon.bsky.social @adriennebuller.bsky.social @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social & Emma Sofie Brogaard - all welcome but registration required www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finance-ae...

It was a pleasure to speak with Ivan Txaparro on Resonar's podcast, el Barrio Global, about the radical imagination and creative activism. linktr.ee/barrioglobal

@maxhaiven.bsky.social outlines the role of palm oil in the Industrial Revolution, the concept of “commodity racism” and the limits of consumer activism. 🔎 Explore #ConnectedSociologies Curriculum Project's open-access educational resources, including video lectures and detailed lesson plans.

An opportunity for game players-, makers-, thinkers- and organizers to come together on 11 July to ask: ** What is the Antifascist Game? ** Organized by RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab in conjunction with this year's Games Transformed Festival Please join us! reimaginingvalue.ca/antifagame/

🎲GAME LAUNCH!🎲 Join @maxhaiven.bsky.social and play Billionaires & Guillotines! Hosted by us, with Weird Economies, RiVAL, and @gamestransformed.bsky.social 🗓️Sun, Apr 13 ⏰6:30pm 📍Pelican House 🎟

We've extended the deadline to apply to join @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social and me in Palermo May 25-29 to study together what makes fascism so seductive and what can be done about it. senseandsolidarity.org/dreams/

🎲GAME LAUNCH!🎲 Join @maxhaiven.bsky.social and play Billionaires & Guillotines! Hosted by us, with Weird Economies, RiVAL, and @gamestransformed.bsky.social 🗓️Sun, Apr 13 ⏰6:30pm 📍Pelican House 🎟

In the dark times, will there also be games? Yes, there will be games about the dark times! Join me, Danny Dorling and Meg Jayanth in London on April 13 for the launch of my new board game BILLIONAIRES AND GUILLOTINES! Published by @plutopress.bsky.social! www.eventbrite.ca/e/billionair...

Let's learn together, then resist, rebel and reinvent the world. You can join @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social and me in late May. We're trying to figure out what the hell is happening. senseandsolidarity.org/dreams/

📚TOMORROW📚 Join @nickmirzoeff.bsky.social and comrades as they discuss To See in the Dark: Palestine and Visual Activism Since October 7 🗓️Sun, Mar 23 ⏰6 pm 📍Medicine for Nightmares 🎟https://buff.ly/3Xdpg9C

For @jacobinmag.bsky.social I wrote about the politics of games, including the story of what happened when the winner of the world's most prestigious board game prize dared to express solidarity with Palestine... In Berlin... jacobin.com/2025/03/boar...