We're so excited to have this out in the world! And so grateful to the contributors, peer reviewers, endorsers, and staff at @rutgersupress.bsky.social for helping it come into being! May it work its way onto many syllabuses and bookshelves...
I'm looking forward to 4S and another visit to Toronto! The 4S meetings are definitely my favorite "big" conference (and they aren't even that big), with lots of variety in content and opportunities to meet new people.
This happens tomorrow! I hope you can join us (it's free and open to the public): us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
I'm so pleased to share the cover of Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century. I've been working on this for the past few years with @eraikhel.bsky.social and Junko Kitanaka for @rutgersupress.bsky.social, and it will finally be available in April 2026! Read more: bit.ly/46zEzOF
In a new series at PB, Systems & Futures section editor Matthew Wolf-Meyer (@mw-m.bsky.social) introduces “No Future”: A Lexicon.
Throughout the week, contributors will explore the question: Can we reject the future?
Anxiety about the future is nothing new. As @mw-m.bsky.social writes, “Rejecting future’s seeming inevitability has defined thought and practice around the world, likely for the whole of human history.”
Our new series “No Future”: A Lexicon, begins today:
"Offering distance and difference in vantage, the post-post-apocalyptic allows the imaginary lens to recenter its focus on a freed moment in time, along with its sovereign, mutable future.”
A new essay up at @publicbooks.bsky.social for a new series edited by @mw-m.bsky.social: shorturl.at/WdMDg
This piece in New City is an abbreviated version of the introduction of Proposals for a Caring Economy--it'll give you a sense of the tone and content of the book, which I hope is welcoming and provoking for readers from all sorts of backgrounds: nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
It's true! After a few years of work and waiting, this little book is here--suitable for use in intro anth and sociology classes, and a remedy for evidence-free policy proposals (I've been telling people it's like reading the @nytimes.com editorial page, but with actual evidence!).
Yesterday, I received a rejection on an article revision, which relied entirely on a peer review provided by a very cranky and mean Reviewer #2. Today, I wrote the editors of that journal an email encouraging them to exercise their editorial power and not send along useless and mean peer reviews.
I agree with all of what @rcolesworthy.bsky.social says here--and am also bad at it. I--probably like a lot of academic authors--am at war with myself about being more of a self-promoter, but I tend to blame it on my introversion rather than self-promotion squeamishness. Maybe they're the same?
I have a new piece in Lateral--on subjunctive grief. It started years ago when I was working on Unraveling and then languished during the early pandemic. But now it is here, thanks to generous peer reviewers and the editors at Lateral: doi.org/10.25158/L14...
Contributions from @audretaughtme.bsky.social, David Hughes, Stephanie Delise Jones & Damien Sojoyner, @ratnagiri77.bsky.social, Katy Overstreet, Michelle Parsons, Adair Rounthwaite, & @eyatesd.bsky.social. On: epidemiology, carbon-reduction, carcerality, sustainable ag, art access, open borders!
It's (nearly) officially here: Proposals for a Caring Economy. It's full of thoughtful and thought-provoking pieces that take centering care as the basis of social organization, from everyday institutions to geopolitical relations. Thanks @uminnpress.bsky.social!
On May 30-31, the Society for Disability Studies is hosting two author-focused events with @drrobertchapman.bsky.social, Faye Ginsburg, and Rayna Rapp (and diverse panels of commentators). Registration is open and free. www.patreon.com/posts/regist...
If you have a book proposal that might be right for them and I might be the right person to help you with it, get in contact: as an editor-at-large, I work with authors on developing their proposals, identifying the right editor to send it to, and provide support during the revision process.
If you need a dose of sincerity from me, this video has it! It's such an honor and pleasure to work with @uminnpress.bsky.social -- a press I idolized as a grad student (the THL series! posthumanities! theory out of bounds!) and have found so much support through as an author. Excelsior!
A new issue of Catalyst is out, including a piece from me on #bioethics and #disability. It draws on memoirs from #autistic authors and fleshes out a cybernetic theory of disability to argue against for more attention to atypical forms of communication. It's argumentative! doi.org/10.28968/cft...
You can request an exam copy here: www.upress.umn.edu/request-exam... (But it won't be out until late May/early June--still plenty of time to prepare to use it in the fall)
It's from @uminnpress.bsky.social and features @audretaughtme.bsky.social, David McDermott Hughes, Stephanie Delise Jones, @ratnagiri77.bsky.social, Katy Overstreet, Michelle Parsons, Adair Rounthwaite, Damien M. Sojoyner and @eyatesd.bsky.social. Recommend it to your friends and family!
"Proposals for a Caring Economy" would make a great inclusion in an #anthropology or #sociology class where you're trying to get students to think about social priorities and their consequences. It covers farmers, artists, women's and homeless shelters, immigration, energy transitions, and more!
"Proposals for a Caring Economy" comes out this spring. I often hope that a book will become irrelevant by the time it's published. Sadly, this little book is more relevant than ever. It offers a set of ethnographically-driven policy recommendations, suitable for any reader. bit.ly/4iS1tUS
Hey! I had a conversation with two fellow #microbial travelers-- Amber Benezra and Gloria Chan-Sook Kim--about our recent (and very different) forays into microbial worlds. Maybe you'll enjoy listening to it? It includes a lot of shit talk (for better and worse!) and feeling disgusted!
I wrote a piece for #anthropology news about middle theories of care as a way to advocate for diverse needs—maybe you’ll enjoy it? www.anthropology-news.org/articles/for...
Oh no! I have to do a ton of work on it… but, yes!, I’m glad you’re digging into it!
I have a chapter about the origins of the “fussy eater” in the book I’m working on right now—they’ve been with us for a very long time!
Thanks for the plug! I'd be happy to do it. You're probably thinking of this: matthewwolfmeyer.com/2019/05/22/e...
The deadline for these jobs is quickly approaching (Jan 10)! #design #equity #technology
Algren's "Man with the Golden Arm"?
Is the aim to give them a first-person account of using? Or some lit that's important for its role in drug history? Or both? I drift toward Philip K. Dick and Can-D (in "3 Stigmata") for doing both; but maybe Ken Kesey? Or Carlos Castaneda? (I wonder what contemporary students would make of them)
