Erica Lagalisse

LSE Lecture (2024) The Crypto-Utopian Occult Revival and Anti/Fascism

Cosmopolitan “digital nomads” share fears of biotechnology manipulated by occult powers, but also similar hopes in psychedelics research, cryptocurrency and technology writ large as sources of social justice. Read more
À propos de “Anarchisme Occulte” (Remue Menage, 2022)

Occult Features of Anarchism (2019) est maintenant publié en français aux Éditions Remue-Ménage par Valérie Lefebvre-Faucher sous le titre Anarchisme occulte (2022), combiné avec l’essai « Le commérage comme action directe » (Lagalisse, 2013). Read more
Occult Features of Anarchism, Polish Edition (2025)

Occult Features of Anarchism (PM Press 2019) will be published in Polish by Kuriozum Press. Read more
PODCAST at The Sociological Review

Erica Lagalisse thinks transnationally with social scientists and political activists about recent cultural shifts in their relation to Covid-19, capitalism and other structures of oppression, and how social movements, educators and researchers might respond. Read more
“The Conspiracy of Kings” Lagalisse AKA David Dyke @ Boom, 2022 (YouTube)

Lagalisse AKA Occult Feature of Anarchism #1 isn’t captured as digital content often, but I wanted there to be at least one of these 2022 festival gigs in the archive. Read more
Occult Features of Anarchism (PM Press, 2019)

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. Read more
“Good Politics”: Property, Intersectionality, and the Making of the Anarchist Self (2017)

Download the original unedited dissertation (2017) here (McGill University Archive) Read more
“Anthropology” in The Handbook of Marxism (2022)

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 (Signs, 2011)

“Marginalizing Magdalena” (2011) explores the logical and historical connections between gender and secularism based on ethnographic research of collaborating Zapatista and anarchist activist collectives. Read more
“Marijuana Legalization as Frontier Capitalism” (Journal of Ethnobiology, 2018)

Just say no to neoliberal marijuana. In public lecture, editorial, and peer-reviewed academic format. Read more
“Occult Features of Anarchism” LSE Public Lecture (2019)

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 Elvis of Anthropology” – Eulogy for David Graeber (2020)

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
“Merry Crisis and Happy New Fear: The Movement Post-Occupy” Athens (2015)

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
“Caring Labour in the Academy” The Sociological Review (2020)

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. Until then, enjoy draft six of Caring Labour in the Academy at The Sociological Review (March 2020). Read more
“Gossip as Direct Action” (Pluto, 2013)

“Gossip as Direct Action” (2013) is an ethnography of sexism within contemporary anarchist collectives that develops classic feminist debates regarding the construction of “public” vs. “private” space, and suggests that anarchists honour state logic more than they realize. Read more
“The Conspiracy of Kings, Class War and the Coronavirus” (Dope, 2020)

Lagalisse interviews author of “Occult Features of Anarchism” (2019), Spartacus Tonans 007 in Dope (Summer 2020) Read more

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