Author: Matthew Wolf-Meyer
Matthew Wolf-Meyer , June 3rd, 2021
From the bottom left, clockwise: my writing board (which currently has a note from my kids and a note about a future paper to be written), a stack…
Matthew Wolf-Meyer , September 14th, 2020
Can we change the way that we think about thinking? Can we rework our thoughts about thought? If so, what would reworking thought open up, analytically and ethnographically?…
Matthew Wolf-Meyer , April 8th, 2020
For the last few years, I’ve been teaching a class called “Human Futures.” I designed it because I was struck by the increasing pessimism among the undergraduates I…
Matthew Wolf-Meyer , June 26th, 2017
We’ve long been thinking about health, well-being, illness, sickness, and disease, in relation to risk. That things might not be maintained at their present levels, either individually, among…
Matthew Wolf-Meyer , March 8th, 2017
The last thirty years have seen an intensification in ways of thinking about our health and disease in the future tense. Risk, precarity, subjunctivity — all three point…
Matthew Wolf-Meyer , November 28th, 2016
Last fall, a group of researchers – mostly biological anthropologists and sleep researchers – published a study of three ‘pre-industrial’ communities, one in Latin America, two in Africa,…