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Max Haiven (and company)

Max Haiven (and company)

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 Max Haiven is Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination at Lakehead University, where he runs RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action LabAll rights reserved
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  • He's So Charismatic and So Can We (THOUGHTSNACK 4)

    He's So Charismatic and So Can We (THOUGHTSNACK 4)
    Dec 15 2025
    We take the occassion of the first Trump-Mamdani meeting to ask: How can Max Weber's theory of charismatic authority help us understand fascism and the struggle against it? Do we need a charismatic leader to save us? PLUS: we spill the tea on Max Weber's spicy poly life. And the ghost of David Graeber makes his usual appearance. THOUGHT SNACK is an occasional podcast from Sense & Solidarity where Sarah Stein Lubrano and Max Haiven explore the big ideas that make and break our world. Sense & Solidarity is a platform where people who want to radically change the world can learn together and build individual and collective capacity. senseandsolidarity.org/ Sarah Stein Lubrano is a writer and researcher who specializes in the social psychology of politics. She is the author of Don't Talk About Politics: How to Change 21st-Century Minds (2025). www.sarahsteinlubrano.com Max Haiven is an researcher and educator who uses writing, teaching, games, podcasts and other techniques for the radical imagination. His latest book is Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire (2022). maxhaiven.com/ Music by Dan Gouly.
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    53 mins
  • Virtual Palestine - Omar Zahzah on Silicon Valley and settler colonialism (Exploits of Play S02E07)

    Virtual Palestine - Omar Zahzah on Silicon Valley and settler colonialism (Exploits of Play S02E07)
    Oct 1 2025
    In this episode, we speak with Omar Zahzah about his new book Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle, published by the Censored Press and Seven Stories Press. Our conversation touches on: the gamified collaboration between big-tech and the apparatus of mass murder and apartheid; the digital targeting, harassment and silencing of Palestinian solidarity organizers; the colonial violence invested in the algorithms that shape our lives (and deaths); and the way a profoundly transformative "Virtual Palestine" is created through the protagonism of those resisting genocide and their supporters around the world. Omar Zahzah is a writer, poet, artist, musician, freelance journalist, and Assistant Professor of Arab, and Muslim, Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies in the Department of Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University. Omar is the former Education and Advocacy Coordinator for Eyewitness Palestine, a role that saw him training delegates to Palestine on Palestinian political history and culture and racial justice. Omar’s writing on Palestine has appeared in outlets such as The Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, andThe Nation. Omar holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA. Against the Fascist Game is the second season of The Exploits of Play, a podcast about games and capitalism. Join Max Haiven and Faye Harvey as they interview game designers, critical theorists and grassroots activists struggling with games to understand, confront and abolish the rising threat of fascism in our times. We ask questions including: how is the far-right using games as platforms for ideology, recruiting and violence, both close to home and around the world? How have vicious reactionary politics emerged from a form of capitalism where most people feel trapped in an unwinnable game? What do fascism and antifascism mean today? And what role, if any do play and games have in confronting the fascist threat and creating a new world? The Exploits of Play is a production of Weird Economies, a platform for exploring the intricacies and excesses of our economic imaginaries, in cooperation with RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab.
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Student Cheating = Working Class Refusal? (THOUGHTSNACK 3)

    Student Cheating = Working Class Refusal? (THOUGHTSNACK 3)
    Sep 17 2025
    Sarah indulges Max's controversial take that... - Students are workers - Use of ChatGPT and generative AI is the refusal of work - Workers can and should reclaim the means of study as part of a class war THOUGHTSNACK is an occasional podcast from Sense & Solidarity where Sarah Stein Lubrano and Max Haiven explore the big ideas that make and break our world. Sense & Solidarity is a platform where people who want to radically change the world can learn together and build individual and collective capacity. http://senseandsolidarity.org/ Sarah Stein Lubrano is a writer and researcher who specializes in the social psychology of politics. She is the author of Don't Talk About Politics: How to Change 21st-Century Minds (2025). http://www.sarahsteinlubrano.com Max Haiven is an researcher and educator who uses writing, teaching, games, podcasts and other techniques for the radical imagination. His latest book is Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire (2022). http://maxhaiven.com/ Music by Dan Gouly.
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    1 hr
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