Matthew Wolf-Meyer
@mw-m.bsky.social
disability & the American family - design & the biology of everyday life - theory for the world to come - anthropologist, americanist, polemicist -(he/him)
This happens tomorrow! I hope you can join us (it's free and open to the public): us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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
September 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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
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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?
Throughout the week, contributors will explore the question: Can we reject the future?
“No Future”: A Lexicon
If the future hasn’t changed in the past, how could it possibly change now?
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July 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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?
Throughout the week, contributors will explore the question: Can we reject the future?
Reposted by Matthew Wolf-Meyer
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:
Our new series “No Future”: A Lexicon, begins today:
“No Future”: A Lexicon
If the future hasn’t changed in the past, how could it possibly change now?
www.publicbooks.org
July 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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:
Our new series “No Future”: A Lexicon, begins today:
Reposted by Matthew Wolf-Meyer
"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
A new essay up at @publicbooks.bsky.social for a new series edited by @mw-m.bsky.social: shorturl.at/WdMDg
“No Future” Lexicon: The Post-Post-Apocalyptic - Public Books
But what lies beyond the end of the world? Casting off the trappings accreted by the post-apocalyptic genre emerge stories of the post-post-apocalyptic.
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July 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"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
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...
Visions of a Caring Economy
A new book explores what it would look like to build an economy that places care and caregiving work at the forefront.
nextcity.org
June 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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!).
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer's @mw-m.bsky.social Forerunner, Proposals for a Caring Economy, offering models of care beyond capitalist constraints, is out now! Read an excerpt here: nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
Visions of a Caring Economy
A new book explores what it would look like to build an economy that places care and caregiving work at the forefront.
nextcity.org
June 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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.
June 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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?
This one is chock full of links to @aupresses.bsky.social's AskUP--the most valuable (& imho under-used) resource on scholarly publishing out there. I can't tell you how much I've learned from it. 9 times out of 10 if I have a Q about publishing, it's answered there. ask.up.hcommons.org?s=marketing
June 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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...
Matthew Wolf-Meyer, "Subjunctive Grief: Affective Methodologies for Articulating Futures" - Lateral
Grief is typically portrayed as an individual experience that is a response to loss and provides the basis for personal growth; grief is something to work through, and, ideally, to benefit from, and r...
doi.org
June 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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...
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!
May 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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...
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May 16, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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 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!
In celebration of our 100th, we have compiled a video with 🥰⚡🌟🥳 submissions from our community, incl. @thesiouxchef.bsky.social @whitneytrettien.bsky.social @mkgold.bsky.social @mw-m.bsky.social @amyklobuchar.com @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social @emmamolls.bsky.social
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April 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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...
Idiosyncratic and Non-Unitary: Disability Memoirs and Antinormative Bioethics
| Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience
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March 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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...
"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
Proposals for a Caring Economy
Offers much-needed care models beyond capitalist constraints For too long, questions of care provision and inclusion have been shaped by economic justificati...
bit.ly
March 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"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!
🎧: It's a microbe's world. We just live in it.
New podcast episode featuring @mw-m.bsky.social, Amber Benezra, and Gloria Chan-Sook Kim: share.transistor.fm/s/e13d8ed0
New podcast episode featuring @mw-m.bsky.social, Amber Benezra, and Gloria Chan-Sook Kim: share.transistor.fm/s/e13d8ed0
It’s a microbe’s world. We just live in it. | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 97
Microbes: We can’t see them, but we have no choice but to live with them. Microbes have significant, enduring impacts on human health and remind us to resist the abstraction of crucial forces in our e...
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February 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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...
Forget Care - Anthropology News
Peter sits on a chaise lounge with a clear vessel full of a shake he’s about to drink. He holds it up to show its brownish-red color and thick
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January 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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...
My department, Science & Technology Studies at Rensselaer, is hiring two positions in Design, Innovation & Society—one tenure track (equitable design) and one teaching track (open area). It’s a very supportive department with excellent students. Please share! careers.rpi.edu/mob/en-us/jo...
Teaching Track Position: Design and Society
The Department of Science & Technology Studies (STS) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) seeks a teaching-track Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, or Professor of Practice in the area of design and soci...
careers.rpi.edu
January 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
For over a decade, I've been blogging about academic professionalization and running a seminar for graduate students that includes a lot about writing article manuscripts. You can now download "How to Publish an Academic Article in 6 Steps" as a free eBook here (I hope):
bit.ly/3D9lnLG
bit.ly/3D9lnLG
How to Write an Academic Article in 6 Steps.epub
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December 9, 2024 at 8:36 PM
For over a decade, I've been blogging about academic professionalization and running a seminar for graduate students that includes a lot about writing article manuscripts. You can now download "How to Publish an Academic Article in 6 Steps" as a free eBook here (I hope):
bit.ly/3D9lnLG
bit.ly/3D9lnLG
My department, Science & Technology Studies at Rensselaer, is hiring two positions in Design, Innovation & Society—one tenure track (equitable design) and one teaching track (open area). It’s a very supportive department with excellent students. Please share! careers.rpi.edu/mob/en-us/jo...
Teaching Track Position: Design and Society
The Department of Science & Technology Studies (STS) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) seeks a teaching-track Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, or Professor of Practice in the area of design and soci...
careers.rpi.edu
December 3, 2024 at 1:52 PM
My department, Science & Technology Studies at Rensselaer, is hiring two positions in Design, Innovation & Society—one tenure track (equitable design) and one teaching track (open area). It’s a very supportive department with excellent students. Please share! careers.rpi.edu/mob/en-us/jo...
Now that the #anthropology feed is more robust, I’m passing along this notice of the @uminnpress.bsky.social #AAA2024 sale:
There are a bunch of wonderful books on sale through the University of Minnesota Press’s annual #anthropology sale—as well as my most recent books, American Disgust and Naked Fieldnotes (with Denielle Elliott): www.upress.umn.edu/aaa24/ Please reskeet! (1/7)
Conference sale: American Anthropological Association - University of Minnesota Press
Books on sale during the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Tampa. Books featured in this collection are 30% off when you
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November 25, 2024 at 12:50 PM
Now that the #anthropology feed is more robust, I’m passing along this notice of the @uminnpress.bsky.social #AAA2024 sale:
After a few years of work, a small edited volume called Proposals for a Caring Economy comes out this spring: It has the vibes of being at a workshop of ideas and pushes thinking about care to address energy transitions, art exhibits, agriculture, etc. And me articulating a temporal labor theory!
Excited to launch our Spring/Summer list of books—extra special as they will publish during our ⚡centennial⚡ in 2025 (more on that in coming weeks!).
Proudly featuring @joshuagooch.bsky.social @adamkotsko.bsky.social @dissentum.bsky.social @julesod.bsky.social @mw-m.bsky.social
z.umn.edu/ss25
Proudly featuring @joshuagooch.bsky.social @adamkotsko.bsky.social @dissentum.bsky.social @julesod.bsky.social @mw-m.bsky.social
z.umn.edu/ss25
November 21, 2024 at 5:12 PM
After a few years of work, a small edited volume called Proposals for a Caring Economy comes out this spring: It has the vibes of being at a workshop of ideas and pushes thinking about care to address energy transitions, art exhibits, agriculture, etc. And me articulating a temporal labor theory!
There are a bunch of wonderful books on sale through the University of Minnesota Press’s annual #anthropology sale—as well as my most recent books, American Disgust and Naked Fieldnotes (with Denielle Elliott): www.upress.umn.edu/aaa24/ Please reskeet! (1/7)
Conference sale: American Anthropological Association - University of Minnesota Press
Books on sale during the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Tampa. Books featured in this collection are 30% off when you
www.upress.umn.edu
November 21, 2024 at 3:20 AM
There are a bunch of wonderful books on sale through the University of Minnesota Press’s annual #anthropology sale—as well as my most recent books, American Disgust and Naked Fieldnotes (with Denielle Elliott): www.upress.umn.edu/aaa24/ Please reskeet! (1/7)
I don’t tend to post about politics, because who needs another academic opining about politics? But I need to exorcise some ideas and if making them public helps anyone… The Democrats are not a national party. You can’t plan to lose the middle of the country and think you can win reliably. 1/10
November 13, 2024 at 1:33 AM
I don’t tend to post about politics, because who needs another academic opining about politics? But I need to exorcise some ideas and if making them public helps anyone… The Democrats are not a national party. You can’t plan to lose the middle of the country and think you can win reliably. 1/10
I often ask my students whether they would eat a candy bar that they found on a bench to get them to think about taboo and disgust. How is it different to eat candy from a stranger? Would you eat an unwrapped candy bar presented by a friend or co-worker? Today, the dilemma presents itself IRL…
November 1, 2024 at 6:54 PM
I often ask my students whether they would eat a candy bar that they found on a bench to get them to think about taboo and disgust. How is it different to eat candy from a stranger? Would you eat an unwrapped candy bar presented by a friend or co-worker? Today, the dilemma presents itself IRL…