Author: Erica Lagalisse File Type: pdf In the nineteenth century anarchists were accused of conspiracy by governments afraid of revolution, but in the current century various conspiracy theories suggest that anarchists are controlled by government itself. The Illuminati were a network of intellectuals who argued for self-government and against private property, yet the public is now often told that they were (and are) the very group that controls governments and defends private property around the world. Intervening in such misinformation, Lagalisse works with primary and secondary sources in multiple languages to set straight the history of the Left and illustrate the actual relationship between revolutionism, pantheistic occult philosophy, and the clandestine fraternity. Exploring hidden correspondences between anarchism, Renaissance magic, and New Age movements, Lagalisse also advances critical scholarship regarding leftist attachments to secular politics. Inspired by anthropological fieldwork within todays anarchist movements, her essay challenges anarchist atheism insofar as it poses practical challenges for coalition politics in todays world. Studying anarchism as a historical object, Occult Features of Anarchism also shows how the development of leftist theory and practice within clandestine masculine public spheres continues to inform contemporary anarchist understandings of the political, in which mens oppression by the state becomes the prototype for power in general. Readers behold how gender and religion become privatized in radical counterculture, a historical process intimately linked to the privatization of gender and religion by the modern nation-state.**ReviewThis is surely the most creative and exciting, and possibly the most important, work to come out on either anarchism or occultism, in many a year. It should give rise to a whole new field of intellectual study. --David Graeber, professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, author of Debt The First 5000 Years A tour de force. Any self-respecting radical should know this history, right down to the dirty history of the A for anarchism sign from its location within Freemasonry and magic. Ripping apart with historical detail our contemporary common sense we learn the tactics of how elite radicals claim power through difference. The significance of this history for the politics of now should not be underestimated and most certainly more widely known. Essential reading. --Dr. Beverley Skeggs, director of the Atlantic Fellows programme at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science, author of Class, Self, Culture Lagalisse excavates the theological, spiritual roots of Anarchism to identify some of the contemporary shortcomings of left activism. Engrossing, enlightening, and often surprising, the book delights and dazzles as it ruminates on a stunning array of topics from gender and intersectionality to secret societies, the occult, and conspiracy. --Gabriella Coleman, professor of anthropology at McGill University, author of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy The Many Faces of Anonymous Erica Lagalisses Occult Features of Anarchism is a wonderful and learned provocation. Taking the concept of modern politics as a form of theology and magical ritual, she traces some aspects of the origins of socialist and anarchist politics and performance to the Hermetic tradition which influenced the Radical Enlightenment and its originators, in for example, the work of Spinoza. But she also argues that this magical or Hermetic tradition rested on a masculinist coup against womens knowledge, especially in the transformation of women healers into malevolent witches. --Carl Levy, professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Goldsmiths, University of London Fun and fascinating, playful and serious at once, Occult Features of Anarchism reveals further why and how the social worlds of the Left often carelessly reproduce and even further entrench mainstream forms of gendered power. --Sally Cole, professor of anthropology emerita, Concordia University, author of Contesting Publics Feminism, Activism, Ethnography Not many books are truly essential reading, but if you think of yourself as an anarchist you cannot afford to miss this. This is one critique we need to be talking about. --Christopher Scott Thompson, https abeautifulresistance.orgsite20181212occult-features-of-anarchism-by-erica-lagalisse-a-review About the Author Erica Lagalisse is an anthropologist, a writer, and apostdoctoral fellow at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science.Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of 14 books, including the bestselling Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch.

Author: Jasper Cornelis Putten File Type: pdf In Networked Nation Mapping German Cities in Sebastian Munsters Cosmographia, Jasper van Putten examines the groundbreaking woodcut city views in the German humanist Sebastian Munsters Cosmographia. This description of the world, published in Basel from 1544 to 1628, glorified the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and engendered the city book genre. Van Putten argues that Munsters network of city view makers and contributors--from German princes and artists to Swiss woodcutters, draftsmen, and printers--expressed their local and national cultural identities in the views. The Cosmographia, and the city books it inspired, offer insights into the development of German and Swiss identity from 1550 to Switzerlands independence from the empire in 1648.

Author: Llana Barber File Type: pdf Latino City explores the transformation of Lawrence, Massachusetts, into New Englands first Latino-majority city. Like many industrial cities, Lawrence entered a downward economic spiral in the decades after World War II due to deindustrialization and suburbanization. The arrival of tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans in the late twentieth century brought new life to the struggling city, but settling in Lawrence was fraught with challenges. Facing hostility from their neighbors, exclusion from local governance, inadequate city services, and limited job prospects, Latinos fought and organized for the right to make a home in the city. In this book, Llana Barber interweaves the histories of urban crisis in U.S. cities and imperial migration from Latin America. Pushed to migrate by political and economic circumstances shaped by the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America, poor and working-class Latinos then had to reckon with the segregation, joblessness, disinvestment, and profound stigma that plagued U.S. cities during the crisis era, particularly in the Rust Belt. For many Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, there was no American Dream awaiting them in Lawrence instead, Latinos struggled to build lives for themselves in the ruins of industrial America.

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