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@garethhh

I love board games, philosophy, political theory and reading. Once did a PhD about Levinas & Derrida on sovereignty.

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The Battle for Britain John Clarke’s The Battle for Britain: Crises, Conflicts and the Conjuncture  (2023) is a major work of political, cultural and social analysis, investigating the state of Britain in the wake o…

Free online seminar this summer with John Clarke, one of the original authors of Policing the Crisis, on his brilliant recent book, The Battle for Britain: Crises, Conflicts and the Conjuncture. Co-hosted with The Autonomy Institute.
culturepowerpolitics.org/the-battle-f...

02.03.2026 18:48 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

@kmilb.bsky.social do you.know if there's ever been, or is being made, a game specifically about Rosa Luxemburg? (Not one she is in, which i could imagine of Weimar for example, but where she is the focal point of the theme).

28.02.2026 10:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thanks

25.02.2026 05:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Do they both enjoy tidal blades?

25.02.2026 05:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Can I ask the age of your kids... feel free not to answer if you dont wanna put that out there tho... im just trying to judge how proximate your reviews are to the age of.mine as ive got an 8er and a 5er, where the 5er is more engaged/invested in games... although the 8er plays...

25.02.2026 05:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

There's interest

24.02.2026 19:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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what a selection that is!

24.02.2026 11:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Love this

23.02.2026 20:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Help us build our website to mobilise everywhere Help us build a live May Day map connecting grassroots actions nationwide. £2k to launch in 4 weeks. Build local power. Tax the rich.

Really important project to coordinate against the far right

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/VWE0ppv...

21.02.2026 08:49 👍 7 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

I love this thread, thanks for writing it. My work entails regulating amongst other things AI so this sort of structured exploration makes me very happy to be a human, and that you are too.

19.02.2026 18:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Just got @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social Spine... Eeeek!

16.02.2026 12:47 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Woohoo

13.02.2026 12:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Please say the live plays will come out as vids after... ive got little kids!

13.02.2026 11:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

@mattmartens.bsky.social did you get round to putting all the arcs tournament matches in one place yet?

12.02.2026 08:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Nationalism and the Future of Britain In this episode, Alan and Jem go deep and long on the concept of nationalism and its implications for UK politics, at a time when nationalist parties are making significant gains across the country…

Another great podcast, this time on Nationalism (and/in the UK), from @jemgilbert.bsky.social and @profafinlayson.bsky.social. So much depth, all of it well appreciated and informative. So yes, please keep making such long form pieces, I love every bit! culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/01/26/n...

12.02.2026 08:08 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Presenting this information as I have, has knock-on effects for people who (I strongly believe) had no awareness or direct involvement in the actions I outlined. This is not fair to them. You can be assured they are fielding questions and demands on their time that they should not have to. 2/4

11.02.2026 01:25 👍 73 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Are we getting nearer to when these possibilities for change might be taken up? #hopefully

06.02.2026 08:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Pre-revolutionary Britain? (Emergency Pod December 2025) Podcast Episode · Culture, Power and Politics » Podcast · 24/12/2025 · 2h 37m

Not sure there's a better summation of where we are or how we got here... podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/p... thanks yet again @jemgilbert.bsky.social and @profafinlayson.bsky.social

02.02.2026 17:52 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Roguelike Celebration 2025 YouTube video by Roguelike Celebration

Watching this great talk by @colewehrle.bsky.social with the @roguelike.club , which was great, and your talk of players being haunted by choices untaken made me wonder Cole if you've ever engaged with Derrida's hauntology / Spectres of Marx? Well worth a watch: www.youtube.com/live/kBfytrn...

31.01.2026 07:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Thinking of Democratic Goals: In Conversation with Jeremy Gilbert - The OLR Supplement Jeremy Gilbert in conversation on themes of reconstructing solidarity, political mobilization of collectives, horizontal organizing, psychedelic socialism, socialism and neoliberalism in the 21st cent...

Great interview with @jemgilbert.bsky.social for those less academically immersed, skip to where it talks about solidarity (although I really enjoyed the engagement with Derrida). For me a good summation of where we are & pointer to how we begin to turn things: olrsupplement.com/2026/01/06/t...

28.01.2026 06:17 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Nationalism and the Future of Britain In this episode, Alan and Jem go deep and long on the concept of nationalism and its implications for UK politics, at a time when nationalist parties are making significant gains across the country…

Here at last is the 3+ hours recorded by myself and @profafinlayson.bsky.social on nationalism and the future of Britain. Subscribe in any podcast app to Culture, Power, Politics. Yes, Burnham-block emergency pod, other guests, more solos, all coming soon. culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/01/26/n...

26.01.2026 17:58 👍 18 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 2
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Upcoming Sessions See below for details of a number of online and in-person seminars coming up From Marx to Spinoza Our irregular online seminar series From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality, hosted by …

Free online seminars this year feature Michael Hardt on multitudes, a 4-session dive into John Clarke's superb work of PROPER conjunctural analysis of modern Britain co-hosted with @autonomy-institute.bsky.social, the Politics of Feeling, Katja Diefenbach's Spinoza culturepowerpolitics.org/upcoming/

26.01.2026 11:15 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
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Whose BBC? | Fabian Society Fabian Society

Just a placeholder for how the media could be turned towards being more accountable through a more public structuring of the BBC, seems important in current (and all) times: fabians.org.uk/whose-bbc/

25.01.2026 05:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Society From the Top Down

Made a website called ‘Society from the Top Down’ where I’ll post my general thoughts on society & politics, work in progress, half-formed ideas, & little bits of research that never become, or never found their way into, books or articles. tamills1981.github.io/society-from...

21.01.2026 19:42 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Good Vibes: One Battle, Zohran, Affect, Immediacy Why was One Battle After Another the biggest film of 2025? What does it have to do with Zohran and Trump? How can Anna Kornbluh’s concept of ‘immediacy’, Raymond Williams’ i…

Here's a podcast about One Battle After Another, political vibes, Zohran, Immediacy, affect theory and structures of feeling - all in just under an hour. (The 3+hour epic on nationalism with Alan will be out next week) culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/01/19/g...

21.01.2026 13:35 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2
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From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality An online seminar series led by Jason Read, Andrew Goffey and Jeremy GilbertAt least since the 1960s, a particular strain of radical thought has explored the relationships – potential and act…

Spinoza in post-Marxist Philosophy, a free seminar with Katja Diefenbach. All details here (scroll to the bottom of the page): culturepowerpolitics.org/from-marx-to....

21.01.2026 16:06 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Oath: Chronicles of Empire & Exile - Season 2, Ch 3 -5p Play-through & Discussion by Heavy Cardboard YouTube video by Heavy Cardboard

Always love a game of #oath so thanks @leder.games and I guess @buriedgiantstudios.bsky.social now! But especially love one with the @heavycardboard.bsky.social , this one was finely poised at the end: www.youtube.com/live/6Ncdvf0...

20.01.2026 07:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Old King's Crown - Designer Interview with Pablo Clark
Old King's Crown - Designer Interview with Pablo Clark YouTube video by Homo Ludens

Loved this chat between @theoldkingscrown.bsky.social and @fredserval.bsky.social , interesting to hear the machinations and experiences of game design from the designers of great games : youtu.be/eXG4AhEA-xM?...

19.01.2026 21:54 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks for designing it, and thanks for writing it, thanks to both of you!

15.01.2026 20:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Im very excited to play this now... your review has got all kinds of juice flowing... the secondary school religion teacher in me... the university teacher... the political theorist/philosopher... the writer of sovereignty with derrida and levinas... I feel it is going to meet me at so many points..

15.01.2026 20:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0