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Class Wargames is a
situationist The Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists. It was prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution ...
ludic-science group based in London. Founded by Richard Barbrook and Fabian Tompsett in 2007, the group has since reproduced Guy Debord's ''
Le Jeu de la Guerre ''A Game of War'' is a book by Guy Debord and Alice Becker-Ho that illustrates a game devised by Debord by giving a detailed account of one of their table-top conflicts. It was first published in French as ''Le Jeu de la Guerre'' in 1987, b ...
'' and proceeded to tour Europe, Asia and South America. In contrast to the electronic version of Debord's game, created by the Radical Software Group, Class Wargames is based on a real rather than digital version of the Game of War and allows for convivial interaction through which anyone can become a
situationist The Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists. It was prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution ...
. ''Meaningful Votes: The Brexit Simulation'' was a wargame designed by Richard Barbrook to help understand the dynamics of the political factions in United Kingdoms in regards to the Brexit referendum.


Publications

*Barbrook, Richard (2014).
Class Wargames: Ludic Subversion Against Spectacular Capitalism
' (paperback ed.). London
Minor Compositions
*Barbrook, Richard and Tompsett, Fabian (2012) ''Class Wargames Presents Guy Debord's The Game of War'' (paperback ed.). London: Unpopular Books. *Lutschinger, Stefan (2014) (ed.)
Klassenkampfspiele
' (paperback ed.). London: Unpopular Books.


References

Situationist International Organizations established in 2007 Clubs and societies in London {{critical-theory-stub