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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Max Haiven invites us to unleash chaos and grab the worldβs wealth with Billionaires and Guillotines
Description: Max Haiven is the author of many books on finance capitalism, social movement organizing, anti-fascist revolt and the politics of revenge. His latest project focuses on games as a major feature of everyday life under advanced capitalism. His writing on games has really grown my understanding of whatβs going on when people take on the sort of abstract agency they can experience in an imagined environment when they play.Beyond writing about games, Max has designed a wicked new board game called Billionaires and Guillotines, published by Pluto Press in their first foray into game production. The Kickstarter ca...