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Gareth @garethhh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

@prorevsoccer.bsky.social Just listened to the spectres of pep episode. It was great thanks! Was wondering which other episodes talk about hauntology, and Hegel? You mentioned there were some in this one www.patreon.com/posts/167854...

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Jon Mackenzie on the Spectre of Pep | Pro Revolution Soccer

The erudite, eloquent, the perspicacious Jon Mackenzie joins to discuss his brilliant new book about the rise and fall of Pep Guardiola, The

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Gareth @garethhh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

@jonmackenzie.bsky.social Just listened to your interview here, it was great and fascinating www.patreon.com/ProRevolutio... it made me have questions... : have you written anything specifically on Klopp? When you said inverting the pyramid and your book is in a series, what is the series/...

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Jon Mackenzie on the Spectre of Pep | Pro Revolution Soccer

The erudite, eloquent, the perspicacious Jon Mackenzie joins to discuss his brilliant new book about the rise and fall of Pep Guardiola, The

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Gareth @garethhh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Went to see the Ai Weiwei exhibition in Manchester and so much of it made me think of @buriedgiantstudios.bsky.social / @colewehrle.bsky.social / @wehrlegig.games 's infamous traffic and john company. Plenty of provocation on the effects of our imperialist/colonialist past and how that feeds into..

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Gareth @garethhh.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

@danthurot.bsky.social are you going to review the pocket wingspan?

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Gareth @garethhh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Really useful development of the Stuart hall episodes looking at emergence of black theory in the uk. Also loved that one of the male academics had to leave to pick up a kid near the end, feels like a real positive development, thanks @jemgilbert.bsky.social yet again: share.google/HavG0SAUriQl...

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Black Theory in Britain

In this episode Jem is joined by Dhanveer Singh Brar and Ashwani Sharma to discuss their 2019 article ‘What is This ‘Black ‘in Black Studies? From Black British Cultural Studies to Blac…

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Keir Milburn @kmilb.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Yes, most specifically we're just sorting out working with Lewisham and Haringey councils to implement popular asset commissions through which councils facilitate the development of democratic planning infrastructures and public-common partnerships. www.in-abundance.org/reports/popu...

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Gareth @garethhh.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

@kaiheron.bsky.social @kmilb.bsky.social I was just wondering if youve had any inkling of a pick up in your public commons partnerships given the recent political changes and suggestions of a redirection...

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Games Transformed @gamestransformed.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

What are we looking for? 🔹For our exhibition area, we are open to both digital and analogue games. 🔸For our festival programme, we are open to talks (up to 30 minutes, including Q&A) and interactive workshops (up to 2 hours).

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Heavy Cardboard @heavycardboard.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We are bringing Hansa Teutonica back to the table tonight. Where does this one rank for y'all? 1900 EDT we go live w/the 5p play-through! Hope y'all join us then! youtube.com/watch?v=d_pDv3BOJvA @tallhousegames.bsky.social @martinfowler.com @shreyinspace.bsky.social @popcpropaganda.bsky.social

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Hansa Teutonica (revisited) - 5p Overview, Play-through & Discussion by Heavy Cardboard

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Gareth @garethhh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

In prep for @buriedgiantstudios.bsky.social sending john company i have been watching @heavycardboard.bsky.social and @colewehrle.bsky.social 's teach and play through. Great details and explanation... and now im 3/4 through there is drama and jeopardy aplenty www.youtube.com/live/mdLx3yn...

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John Company 2nd Edition - 4p Teaching & Play-through by Heavy Cardboard

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Gareth @garethhh.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

@danthurot.bsky.social not sure if I've already asked you this... sorry if I have but I cant find it... feel like may have written a review of crossbows and catapults... is 6 a good age for it? Thinknig of getting it for a birthday... i feel like 6 may be the perfect age for it... thoughts?

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Gareth @garethhh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

@jemgilbert.bsky.social have you ever played John company the game? Or you @kmilb.bsky.social ? Something about your shock episode of acfm that I was listening to this morning made me wonder this... probably naomi klein related...

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Gareth @garethhh.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Just been reading an article about the smooth and striated deleuzian notions and how they intersect with play. Then started listening to this interview with @colewehrle.bsky.social from @decisionspace.bsky.social and its a real cross over in how his games really push at the boundaries of ...

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Gareth @garethhh.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

@colewehrle.bsky.social just reading "The radical productivity of play" by Nash and Penning and this made me think of some of your writing:

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Keir Milburn @kmilb.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

A new #ACFM on Resilience. Nadia Idle, @jemgilbert.bsky.social, and I discuss the use of resilience in neoliberal management speak, the problems with using resilience and collapse as a framing for climate change, and ask if the sense you're part of a wider, ongoing movement can form left resilience.

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Are You Resilient Enough to Face the Future?

Can humans and animals can flourish in the ruins of capitalism?

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Gareth @garethhh.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

@danthurot.bsky.social did i notice somewhere that you said you use something like a perspex screen to play some games with? Or have I imagined that?...

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Gareth @garethhh.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

@colewehrle.bsky.social Just reading through the Oath: New Foundations combined rulebook and getting excited to play this version. One thing it has me wondering is what happened to the site overlay idea? I seem to remember that from a development post, with ideas like flooding sites (or unflooding..

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Burnham campaign HQ, The moment the result was declared in the Ashton-in-Makerfield by-election, about 3:30 this morning. Podcast about it here (or search for Culture, Power, Politics on any app): culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/06/19/e...

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Keir Milburn @kmilb.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

An #ACFM episode reading Walter Benjamin's classic essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Giving @jemgilbert, @NotJustYouHere, and I an angle into modern debates around the nature of Fascism, LLMs, NFTs, and how we might democratise art. novaramedia.com/2026/06/07/w...

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What Does Fascist Art Look Like? Reading Walter Benjamin

Join our close reading of a foundational text of 20th century media theory.

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

In-depth discussion of the history of Black Cultural Studies in Britain and the more recent adoption of US 'Black Critical Thought' by younger scholars, through to the revival of Black Marxism in very recent years. culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/06/06/b...

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Black Theory in Britain

In this episode Jem is joined by Dhanveer Singh Brar and Ashwani Sharma to discuss their 2019 article ‘What is This ‘Black ‘in Black Studies? From Black British Cultural Studies to Blac…

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Gareth @garethhh.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

spacebiff.com/2026/06/02/w... @danthurot.bsky.social I love this writing for so much more than board games... it makes me want to play the game, but more than that it goes down the road of showing the power of playing games, and of writing, of going beyond the moment of play and writing and...

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A Crack in the World

I wouldn’t wish to inflict board game drama on anybody who wasn’t already saturated in the stuff, so I’ll keep the details sparse, but the past couple of weeks saw a minor authori…

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Keir Milburn @kmilb.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

We produced a report last year looking at different models of localised social control over water services, but it would be perverse to maintain private ownership and rent extraction under these circumstances. www.in-abundance.org/reports/beyo...

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Beyond the Public: Experiences in the Social Control of Water | Bertie Russell & Keir Milburn

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Henri Whitehead @henriw.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I’ve been working on a solitaire hex and counter war game for several years, and id like to get more outside feedback. The game exists as a rules-enforced html demo with a tutorial. I did all of the artwork by hand (no AI art). Message me if interested in taking a peek at it.

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Gareth @garethhh.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Great podcast on boredom from @jemgilbert.bsky.social @kmilb.bsky.social and nadia idle (is she on here?)... loving that my main experience of boredom is doing housework, which listening to podcasts such as this one whilst doing it totally alleviates that boredom: share.google/BHSATHlfnLwx...

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ACFM Trip 58: Boredom

Play ACFM Trip 58: Boredom by Novara Media on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Don't worry about the elections now - the results aren't even all in yet. Instead, sit back and listen to @profafinlayson.bsky.social and I discuss the relationship between politics and religion. Here, or search for Culture, Power, Politics in a podcast app: culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/05/08/r...

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Exploring Religion and Politics in the 21st Century

Join Jeremy Gilbert and Alan Finlayson as they explore the complex relationship between religion and politics in the 21st century.

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Labour leadership saying people want ‘change faster’ is yet another manifestation of nanagerial ‘delivery’ mindset. No. What people want is a narrative that indicates an understanding of what has happened to Britain and a willingness to challenge powerful interests to fix it.

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Gareth @garethhh.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

@bbornmueller.bsky.social hi Brian... is there a tts module for the fellowship trick taker? Or if not some other version?

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Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The wonderful thing about this year is that you'll now begin to see our *previous years'* AGS issues populating the new site as we finish the process of adapting them. For example, here is last year's special issue on Queer Analog Game Studies, ready to read: escholarship.org/uc/analoggam...

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Bob @bobappleyard.me · 27/03/2026

@jemgilbert.bsky.social have you watched zack polanski's lecture a nef? feels like a big thing that a leader of a westminster party is explicitly proposing a significant break from thatcherism

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Zack Polanski on the Economy | Green Party Vision | New Economics Foundation

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Gareth @garethhh.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

@bbornmueller.bsky.social Just a quick check in solo fellowshiptrick taker do you have to choose the starred characters first as nearest to frodo... or is it just by the end of setup they have to be chosen? I looked on bgg but couldn't find an answer

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

What will the tech bros do when the AGI tells them that the only rational way to solve the world's problems is communism?

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Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

With merely a week to go until launch, today we wanted to share some of the details about the about the upcoming expansion. We'll have the video version posted on Thursday, but if you simply must know now, I'm not going to stop you from taking a sneak peek. boardgamegeek.com/thread/36824...

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Designer Diary 9 - Going Beyond the Reach | Arcs

Though the past few months have had more than their share of difficult business decisions, there’s been one that was pretty obvious. As soon as we secured Arcs and formed Buried Giant, we knew we woul...

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Increasingly thinking about activities that once seemed like dispensable luxuries but now seem like necessary neuroplastic interventions to save analogue brains from being hollowed out by algorithms: literary fiction, poetry, tabletop games, vinyl LPs...

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Gareth @garethhh.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

This is indeed, brilliant.

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Gareth @garethhh.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

@maxhaiven.bsky.social thanks for showing us Billionaires and guillotines tonight. I really enjoyed it. Loving that hidden bidding Mechanic thingy... not sure how to describe it, but it was cool. Also loving the theme as an avenue of approach. I wondered how much youd thought about...

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

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...

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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…

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Gareth @garethhh.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

@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).

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Gareth @garethhh.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

what a selection that is!

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Gareth @garethhh.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

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

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Gareth @garethhh.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

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...

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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…

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Watch It Played @watchitplayed.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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

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Gareth @garethhh.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Are we getting nearer to when these possibilities for change might be taken up? #hopefully

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Gareth @garethhh.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

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...

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Roguelike Celebration 2025

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