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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I was interviewed with @eraikhel.bsky.social and Junko Kitanaka about our recent volume, “Mapping Medical Anthropology for the 21st Century” for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. It’s a fun conversation thanks to Amisah Bakuri! Check it out: newbooksnetwork.com/mapping-medi...

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Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer et al eds., "Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century" (Rutgers UP, 2026) - New Books Network

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

We're about a month away from the official release of Mapping Medical Anthropology for the 21st Century, which was an effort made better by so many friends being involved, esp. @eraikhel.bsky.social and Junko Kitanaka, who did so much work to make this volume from @rutgersupress.bsky.social happen.

Matthew Wolf-Meyer (a bald, middle aged white guy with glasses) holds aloft a copy of Mapping Medical Anthropology for the 21st Century. He's standing in front of a window with blue skies behind him.

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

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...

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

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.

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

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

The cover of Mapping Medical Anthropology for the 21st Century. It features black, bold text that runs the course of the cover from top to bottom. Behind the text is a red, veiny image. Maybe it's a bent knee? Maybe it's some other joint? It's purposefully obscure and fleshy.

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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?

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“No Future”: A Lexicon

If the future hasn’t changed in the past, how could it possibly change now?

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

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:

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“No Future”: A Lexicon

If the future hasn’t changed in the past, how could it possibly change now?

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Isaac Yuen @ekostories.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

"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

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“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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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

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...

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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.

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

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!).

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

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.

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

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?

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

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...

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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...

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

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!

The image includes two copies of the book Proposals for a Caring Economy, one resting atop the other, askance in its orientation. The cover is crimson, with the text in white.

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

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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Registration is Open for May Events | Society for Disability Studies

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

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!

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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...

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Idiosyncratic and Non-Unitary: Disability Memoirs and Antinormative Bioethics | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

"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

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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...

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

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!

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The deadline for these jobs is quickly approaching (Jan 10)! #design #equity #technology

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

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

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How to Write an Academic Article in 6 Steps.epub

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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...

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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...

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Now that the #anthropology feed is more robust, I’m passing along this notice of the @uminnpress.bsky.social #AAA2024 sale:

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

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!

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

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)

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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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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

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

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

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…

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Here’s my guide to applying to graduate school. Ostensibly it’s for anthropology, but I think it’s generally applicable—I’d be happy to learn if it doesn’t work for other disciplines! matthewwolfmeyer.com/2012/08/12/s...

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So You’re Applying to Graduate School (in Anthropology)

Applying to graduate school can seem daunting, but if you take it step by step it doesn't need to be so. But this means starting the process early -- like a year before you plan on applying -- and mak...

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

I’ve tried to put together a non-exhaustive list of anthropologists on bluesky together. Did I miss anyone? Should I add you? go.bsky.app/GYEM3YK #anthropology #anthrosky

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

Are you using Naked Fieldnotes (from @uminnpress.bsky.social) in class this term? It now has a website with more pictures, videos and soundscapes for you to explore—and links to reviews and interviews. Check out nakedfieldnotes.com

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Naked Fieldnotes

A Rough Guide to Ethnographic Writing

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

Are you using Naked Fieldnotes from @uminnpress.bksy.social in class this fall? Just want a copy for yourself? It's on sale--along with a ton of great sociology and anthropology books--for 40% off thanks to the #ASA2024 meetings. z.umn.edu/asa24 40% off discount code: MNASA24

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Conference sale: American Sociological Association 2024 - University of Minnesota Press

Books on sale during the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Montréal Books featured in this collection are 40% off when you

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 09/06/2024

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!

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

Are you or someone you know the person to write a piece for @publicbooks.bsky.social on "The Future Liberals Want"? It would mean reviewing Adler-Bolton and Vietkant’s "Health Communism," Metzl’s "What We've Become," and Washington’s "The Case for Open Borders" (at least). DM me!

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

@ifbookspod.bsky.social finally got to Pinker’s Better Angels and his misreading of Norbert Elias. If @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @notalawyer.bsky.social want some insight, let me know. Elias is sure the civilizing process is all ideology—Pinker thinks it’s real. It’s a bummer!

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

Denielle Elliott and I were interviewed for the New Books Network about our new edited collection, Naked Fieldnotes. If you’re up for some chitchat about what kind of genre Fieldnotes are, the problems with learning ethnographic methods, and my frustrations with anthropologists, give it a listen:

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‎New Books Network: Matthew Wolf-Meyer and Denielle A. Elliott, "Naked Fieldnotes: A Rough Guide to Ethnographic Writing (U Minnesota Press, 2024) on Apple Podcasts

‎Show New Books Network, Ep Matthew Wolf-Meyer and Denielle A. Elliott, "Naked Fieldnotes: A Rough Guide to Ethnographic Writing (U Minnesota Press, 2024) - Feb 17, 2024

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

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...

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

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...

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

Michele Friedner and I have a new piece in American Ethnologist about centering disability in anthropological praxis and theory—and why anthropologists have such a hard time doing so (and it’s OA): doi.org/10.1111/amet...

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