From financialized capitalism to gamified fascism

Podcast: Max Haiven (and company)Episode: From financialized capitalism to gamified fascismPub date: 2025-05-02Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOn 28 April 2025, Max Haiven presented an outline of his forthcoming book "The Player and the Played: Gamification, Financialization and (anti-)Fascism" at Brussels' Au JUS space. If fascism names a form of tyranny that incubates within capitalism and bears its' traces, what kind of 21st century fascism emerges from financialized capitalism? 1. Why do we feel trapped in an unwinnable game? 2. How can we think about fasicsm? 3. What is financialization? 4. What is gamification? 5. What is "derivative" and what is new about today's fascism? 6. How can we make sense of gamified fascist violence? 7. Why do fascist cheats succeed (and why is cheating so central to their rhetoric?) 8. What is fascist worldbuilding (and worldrazing)? 9. What is the antifascist game?The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The ReImagining Value Action Lab, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.