...Nancy Bird-Soto “Nonconformist” is one of several ways to describe Puerto Rican feminist Luisa Capetillo (1882–1922). As a transnational figure who synthesizes a unique fusion of diverse influences such as anarchism, spiritism, and syndicalism, Capetillo presents a distinctive reader-writer persona...

... with the theoretical texts of Paulo Freire, Ángel Rama, Ivan Illich, and Jacques Ranciere. It also supports work on the increasing bibliography about Capetillo’s literary and political innovations. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 Luisa Capetillo anarchism feminism...

... Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 anarchism Counter-Republic of Letters Caribbean working-class intellectual communities On Monday, 10 April 1922, a worker from the town of Río Piedras phoned the headquarters of the Federación Libre de Trabajadores de Puerto Rico (FLT; Free Federation...

... Luisa Capetillo anarchism feminism work working-class literature The Puerto Rican anarchist and feminist intellectual Luisa Capetillo Perón (Arecibo, 1882–San Juan, 1922) 1 published four books during her lifetime: Ensayos libertarios (Emancipatory essays, 1907), La humanidad en el futuro...

... to believe that anarchism was one way forward, that it was a sustainable hermeneutic and the most interesting proposal of its kind since the nineteenth century because it breaks away from the gaze of Enlightenment reason, homogeneity, and coloniality. As Tony saw it, anarchism supported a vision of radical...

... appeared in the Journal of Haitian Studies , the CLR James Journal , TOPIA , and Tangence . Her first book, Disruptive Agency: Towards a Black Feminist Anarchism , is forthcoming from Duke University Press. In her ceramic arts practice, she explores storytelling, Black liberation, plant life...

... of colonization and slavery, natural mystics to be sentimentalized as new Adams in a troubled Paradise, or deluded and preposterous lunatics? Were Rude Boys social revolutionaries or ruthless, anarchic criminals wielding apocalyptic destruction? Henzell’s original script seems to ambivalently and ambigu...

... group The Selecter. Contrasting the impact Poly Styrene of the pioneering punk group X-Ray Spex had upon her—“She made me realize that … you can be that free and anarchic”—and her disinterest in being “all trussed up like the women in Chic,” raises the possibility that the subtlety Rodgers's...

.... Guantánamo is a historical experiment in supra-legal violence, an attempt to invent new “legal” rules of exclusion, obliteration, disappearance, and absolute domination. Can one not, in this regard, see the military commissions now underway at Guantánamo as, likewise, not an anarchic attempt to set...

... York during the uprising after the killing of George Floyd, where the parts of the system tried to devalue protesters through the term anarchism , used negatively as part of continuous attempts to link anarchism to chaos (even when anarchy historically relies on phenomenal efforts of democratic...

... to allow the listening viewer to linger in hearing her sound, her song. The moment illustrates what Allen Feldman calls “the inadmis- sibility of alien sensory experience,” in what he terms “cultural anesthesia.” He calls attention to the editing out of “disconcerting, discordant, and anarchic sensory...

... positions was the primary source of evaluation. And as reading journals became essential to my progress as a black scholar, it was not difficult to witness the anarchic realm of cultural and intellectual possibilities that had inspired me whittled into something as correspondingly small...

... that There Is No More Haiti is “a story of a city that grew into a monster” (1). What does it mean to narrate Port-au-Prince as a monster? Beckett describes “the urban crisis” as “the problems of slums and a lack of services, . . . the anarchic urbanism that began to take shape in the city as the state, too, retreated...

... of the most telling blows against a critical tendency to misrepresent Marley as solely a peace and love advocate somehow unaware of the anarchic potentialities for which constant oppression and exploitation provide innumerable catalysts. The Marley music and images accompanying Jamaica Tourist Board...

... disembodiment to saturated materiality, from anarchic disconnection to enmeshed spirits of seriousness, from imagined complete independence of institutions to the cage of closed, at times referred to by philosophers as “ontological,” systems, from radicalized subjectivity of knowledge to epistemic closure...

... powerful, and moving anarchically around the drummers were many youths who augmented the drumming by clashing pieces of iron together. Those high ringing, cracking sounds were often what snapped people across the last barrier into trance. As I retreated from the center, one...

... with their motley architectural styles, ubiquitous walls, zinc fences, discombobulated shacks, solidly built concrete houses, burnt-out buildings, and newly painted neat small bungalows that signal either naïve optimism or resilient endurance. Here, in all its jumbled, anarchic architectural incongruity, its...

... Ernst describe the “anarchival” or “anarchic archive” as an intellectual or artistic fantasy—in the sense that digital and photographic archives continue to be informed by order and technomathematical structures. 71 Certainly the GPI is structured by formal archival conventions around storage...

... and profoundly empathetic act struck an international chord with fractious black British youngsters and Jamaican ghetto sufferers alike. Thereafter, rioting would never be considered by many of its perpetrators as being the negative, destructive, and anarchic act that others, particularly the mainstream media...

... and autonomy. Erotic displays of the body, explicit conversation on sex and sexual desire, and glorification of materialism and violence are at the forefront of the ghetto feminist’s lyrics. Furthermore, her embodied aesthetic differs from the everyday, including “anarchic, confrontational and openly sexual...