What begins as a book tour reveals itself as an ethnographic field when our protagonist, author of “Occult Features of Anarchism” Spartacus Tonans du Loge Subutex, finds herself as popular educator playing with brand new heteronym David Dyke, Leader of the Pilluminati. Read more

Occult Features of Anarchism (2019) is now available in in French from Remue Ménage as Anarchisme Occulte (2022), who have published the work in compilation with a French translation of “Gossip as Direct Action” (2013). The work is now also available in Italian from D Editore (2020) as Anarcoccultismo, and in Greek from Firebrand (2021)… Read more

Download the original unedited dissertation (2017) here (McGill University Archive) “The Italians who had just arrived sang Bella Ciao and most of us knew the lyrics in Spanish.  The French sang the Internationale and the rest were drunk enough to fake it.” Read more

To study anthropology with Marxist categories or subject Marxism to ethnographic scrutiny, it makes sense to proceed chronologically—the importance of history is something anthropologists and Marxists often agree on… Read more

“Marginalizing Magdalena – Intersections of Gender and the Secular in Anarchoindigenist Solidarity Activism” (2011) explores the logical and historical connections between gender and secularism, based on ethnographic research of collaborating Zapatista and anarchist activist collectives in support of indigenous peoples’ movements. Read more

See “The Dangers of Health and Safety: Marijuana Legalization as Frontier Capitalism” in Journal of Ethnobiology, Vol. 38, No. 4 (2018), and brief editorial in The Independent, “Legalising Cannabis in the UK Will Leave the Working Classes Behind – Just As We’ve Seen in America” (Tuesday May 21, 2019). Read more

A podcast of my public lecture at the London School of Economics, presenting Occult Features of Anarchism – With Attention to the Conspiracy of Kings and the Conspiracy of the Peoples (2019) is available here. This lecture took place March 20th, 2019, and was chaired by Mathijs Pelkmans of the Anthropology department. Read more

The eulogy I wrote for David Graeber published by The Sociological Review in October 2020 can be found here. One of the most difficult things I have written. Read more

Is it a panel? A play? There’s a lot more going on than first meets the eye in this unique event that Georgia Sagri, David Graeber and I crafted, titled Merry Crisis and Happy New Fear: The Movement Post-Occupy, at Ύλη[matter]HYLE in Athens, Greece, which took place on December 30th 2015. Read more

One day I will publish the first draft of this essay next to the final one, so that everyone can see just how bad things really are, and how much (self)censorship is required for survival. Until then, enjoy draft six of Caring Labour in the Academy at The Sociological Review (March 2020). Read more

“Gossip as Direct Action” in Contesting Publics: Feminism, Activism, Ethnography (Pluto, 2013) pulls no punches as a ‘personal’ ethnographic account of sexism within contemporary anarchist collectives, which develops classic feminist debates regarding the construction of “public” vs. “private” space to suggest that anarchists operate according to state logic more than they realize. Read more

Read “The Conspiracy of Kings, Class War and the Coronavirus” by Erica Lagalisse and her alter-ego Spartacus Tonans, Supreme Magus of the Kitchen Garden 007˚ in Dope, Summer 2020, published by Dog Section Press, London, UK. Read more

Listen to the launch of Occult Features of Anarchism – With Attention to the Conspiracy of Kings and the Conspiracy of the Peoples (PM Press, 2019) at Freedom Bookshop in London, UK, which took place on February 7th 2020. The audio is hosted on Youtube (45 min). Read more

“Occult Features of Anarchism” is published in Italian by D Editore as “Anarcoccultismo: Dissertazione sulle cospirazioni dei Re e sulle cospirazioni dei popoli.” See also the interview with Elisa Lello in Malamente, n.20 (June 2020), “Teorie della cospirazione e critica sociale – Come il complottismo prospera, non sempre a torto, sulle bugie delle élite”, as… Read more

One of my first academic publications (2010), this ‘Limits of Radical Democracy’ essay concerns gendered power in anarchist collectives. Some of its material regarding the gendered construction of ‘public’ and ‘private’ space was later more fully developed within ‘Gossip as Direct Action’ and ‘Good Politics’, yet keeners may want to read this earlier version as… Read more