Stewart Home: Fascist Yoga, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Fascist Yoga
- Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order In Wellness
- Publisher:
- Pluto Press, 07/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780745351124
- Item number:
- 12089343
- Volume:
- 224 Pages
- Weight:
- 454 g
- Format:
- 198 x 129 mm
- Thickness:
- 16 mm
- Release date:
- 20.7.2025
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
'Namaste, fascists! An original and entertaining analysis of the dubious origins of the Western middle class's favourite postural exercise' - The Times
The practice of yoga promises peace, self-realisation and release, thanks to the power of its 'mystic' Indian origins. But what if this is just hype? In Fascist Yoga, Stewart Home sweeps away the half-truths to tell a new origin story of the world's first modern yogi - a Californian escapologist who added some Hindu fairy dust to gym and circus exercises.
Ever since, the world of yoga has been full of grifters, occultists and white supremacists, all out to exploit and recruit via the medium of exercise. From cult leaders to brainwashed followers, TV celebrities and fake gurus, the story of yoga has involved some of the strangest currents of humanity.
Today, the COVID pandemic has activated elements within the modern yoga movement to espouse far-right conspiracies, and QAnon's fascist political programmes mirror some of yoga's key early proponents.
In this new exposé, Stewart Home shows that nothing is sacred.
Biography
Stewart Home, geb. 1962 in London. Versuchte sich zunächst als Fabrikarbeiter, Musiker und Aktionskünstler. Organisator des International Festival of Plagiarism, des Kunststreiks 1990-1993, Gründungsmitglied der Neoist Alliance. Inzwischen Autor zahlreicher Romane und Essaybände, lebt in London und Schottland. In der Edition Nautilus erschienen "Stellungskrieg" und "Purer Wahnsinn".§
