Billionaires & Guillotines game workshop

In the board game Billionaires & Guillotines, 2-5 players will take on the roles of rival plutocrats, competing to accumulate the wealth of the world before their actions trigger a revolution and they all lose… a lot more than their assets.

Will you play the media baron or the property speculator? The aristocrat or the tech overlord? Whoever you play, the aim is to acquire five extravagant assets prized by the super-rich (a mega yacht, a celebrity spouse, art masterpieces and more!) and prevent your opponents from achieving their dreams.

This workshop is open to all UWE Bristol students, and will be followed by an open talk (everyone welcome) about Haiven's latest book The Player and the Played : From Gamed Capitalism to 21st Century Facism, also at the Pervaisive Media Studio.

See: https://www.watershed.co.uk/studio/events/2026/03/27/lunchtime-talk-were-being-played-fascist-billionaires-and-gamification-capitalism

About the creator/workshop facilitator:

Max Haiven is a propagandist for an impossible country. He uses writing, teaching, games, podcasts and other techniques for the radical imagination. He works as an associate professor and Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination at Lakehead University.

His most recent books are Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire (2022), Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts (2020) and Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization (2018).

https://maxhaiven.com/

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