The Plague of Fantasies keyword slavery and abolitionism Jane McAlevey is famous—and notorious—in Jane McAlevey is famous—and notorious—in the American labor movement as the hard charging organizer who racked up a string of victories at a time when union leaders said winning wasn’t possible practices and knowledges electronically inspired phantasms that cloud the ability to reason and prevent a true understanding of a world increasingly dominated by abstractions—whether those of digital technology or the speculative market he confidently ranges among a dazzling array of cultural references—explicating Robert Schumann as deftly as he does John Carpenter—to demonstrate how the modern condition blinds us to the ideological basis of our lives