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)
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
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!
American Disgust is the product of a decade of working through racism and what it does to medicine and ideas about bodies and the biological. It offers an orthogonal approach to the racisms we’re facing in American society today. This GIF trip is amazing—please join me: (2/7)
November 21, 2024 at 3:20 AM
American Disgust is the product of a decade of working through racism and what it does to medicine and ideas about bodies and the biological. It offers an orthogonal approach to the racisms we’re facing in American society today. This GIF trip is amazing—please join me: (2/7)
This is my version of play:
I 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? The dilemma IRL…
I 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? The dilemma IRL…
November 8, 2024 at 11:55 AM
This is my version of play:
I 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? The dilemma IRL…
I 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? The dilemma IRL…
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…
Every once in a while I publish something that I’m surprised editors let me get away with. My chapter,“technological fantasies,” is a meditation on Murderbot and the Terminator films, including a discussion of why Terminators have human teeth. Thanks to @marthawells.bsky.social for such rich texts!
June 9, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Every once in a while I publish something that I’m surprised editors let me get away with. My chapter,“technological fantasies,” is a meditation on Murderbot and the Terminator films, including a discussion of why Terminators have human teeth. Thanks to @marthawells.bsky.social for such rich texts!
If you’ve ever wanted a deep dive into why Americans think certain things are disgusting (like fecal microbial transplants), your quest is over (and your summer beach reading is here!). Behold, American Disgust. And there’s time to preorder at 40% off: www.upress.umn.edu/book-divisio...
January 14, 2024 at 10:56 PM
If you’ve ever wanted a deep dive into why Americans think certain things are disgusting (like fecal microbial transplants), your quest is over (and your summer beach reading is here!). Behold, American Disgust. And there’s time to preorder at 40% off: www.upress.umn.edu/book-divisio...
Do you do or teach qualitative methods? Do you wish you had a nearly 400 page book of other people’s actual, unedited fieldnotes (and introductory essays)? Then have I got the book for you—which you can still preorder at 40% off. www.upress.umn.edu/book-divisio...
January 14, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Do you do or teach qualitative methods? Do you wish you had a nearly 400 page book of other people’s actual, unedited fieldnotes (and introductory essays)? Then have I got the book for you—which you can still preorder at 40% off. www.upress.umn.edu/book-divisio...