Why are the negative consequences of so-called AI so consistently directed at disabled and racialized people? Disabling Intelligences details the ongoing effects of the eugenicist mindset on our corporate ventures and our interpersonal relationships. link.springer.com/book/9783032...

"Fidel" will spend his day harvesting hundreds of boxes of parsley. He shares he is grateful for his union job that allows him to earn more in way better working conditions than non-union workers. #WeFeedYou

Friends in NYC: Vasuki Nesiah, Tony Alessandrini, Gary Wilder and I will be holding a public conversation at CUNY Graduate Center on "The Question of Internationalism Today" on Sept 18, at 5 pm. Please join the discussion. @lsehumanrights.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

The Trump administration appears to be trying to make a global war on renewables. I spoke to @mkblyth.bsky.social for @drilledmedia.bsky.social about the strategy of carbon dominance, how this is shaping politics not just in the US but everywhere, and what that means for the future.

The very concept of "virtue signaling" is culturally Protestant, premised as it is upon a fundamental disconnect between the true, unknowable inner self, and the outward acts that self performs. But there is no self that preexists its actions in the world. Better people enact virtue than vice.

"Merleau-Ponty Today," a special issue of SAQ (124:3) edited by Judith Revel, is now available. View the full TOC and read Revel's introduction "Merleau-Ponty, History Otherwise," made freely available: buff.ly/CF9KvNT

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “We need a new way of thinking about fire: as not only natural disaster, but also environmental threat with a high risk of long-term harms to health,” David L. Ulin, a professor at the University of Southern California, writes.

My blurb for this book was limited to fifty word, but I could have gone on and on about how important it is, a book we will be talking about for a long time. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza...

This flew by my radar this week, but massively important: the 5th circuit court of appeals ruled that the NLRB’s structure unconstitutional. It is a huge blow to “American workers who hope to organize their workplaces without fear of retaliation. It represents a partial negation of the New Deal…”

Great episode. www.sup.org/books/politi...

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Re-upping our latest entry on the Deep Sea, where Marta Gentilucci highlights #anthropology 's "shy yet critical approach to the deep sea as an ethnographic site–one imbued with meanings that shift depending on who encounters it, with what tools, and through which mediations." #OpenAccess

Another great book that I finished recently was @kimkelly.bsky.social’s Fight Like Hell, a history of the U.S. organized labor movement since colonial times. Gives several examples of private surveillance / violence (Pinkertons, hired thugs) and police opposing organizers—rhymes with the present!

“Bodyworkability describes the medico-legal substitution of body parts with quantified units of standardized ability to work” Check out Elif Irem Az’s wonderful article “Bodyworkability” in @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our hidden gem of the week details how tech doesn’t just “augment” work; it reshapes power, squeezing workers while boosting employer control. By @aihathing.bsky.social & @cariatida.bsky.social in @datasociety.bsky.social https://buff.ly/3EcmDOs

Hundreds evacuated in northwestern Turkey as authorities fight wildfires www.reuters.com/sustainabili... #ClimateCrisis #Heatwave #Wildfire #Canakkale #Turkey

📢📢📢 New Article Alert 📢📢📢 How does one care for the welfare of child soldiers whose very vulnerability may undermine the State’s ability to wage war? In “Army of the Vulnerable,” Edmonds explores how the British army attempts to protect its own while retaining the capacity to exercise violence.

Today I learned that when sugarcane farmers burn their fields, a “black snow” falls for months on communities downwind. Under FL law, burns are prohibited when the wind is blowing into wealthy, white neighborhoods. They’re only allowed when it’s blowing into poor, majority black areas.

“Bodyworkability describes the medico-legal substitution of body parts with quantified units of standardized ability to work” Check out Elif Irem Az’s wonderful article “Bodyworkability” in @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social #anthropology anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In "Breathing Free: Chronicity, Pollution, and Imaginaries of Good Work in India" Ipshita Ghosh examines how Delhi's air pollution crisis and its compounding impacts on residents' health disrupt normative ideas of work, generating a new hierarchy of values that centers the ability to breathe freely.

Just wow.

In "Fueling Development," Zophia Edwards traces Trinidad and Tobago’s democratic and redistributive development success to a specific form of Black radical working-class mobilization she calls “liberation unionism.” Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/94DOWp1

New article! Many of us who sell our labor power sometimes struggle with diminished “bodyworkability”—from overwork, accidents, toxicity, or disasters—but what happens when that condition is assessed for medical recognition as a disability? @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social @harvardcmes.bsky.social

Please read the introduction to our current Special Issue edited by Giorgio Brocco & Stephanie Mauksch “Laboring from ex-centric Sites: Disability, Chronicity, and Work” which outlines why this Issue is so timely & important:

From colonial surveys to contemporary gem rushes: how do stones become valuable across geological time? First article from my PhD, "After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan," now out in @csshjournal.bsky.social (open access!) doi.org/10.1017/S001...

New article! Many of us who sell our labor power sometimes struggle with diminished “bodyworkability”—from overwork, accidents, toxicity, or disasters—but what happens when that condition is assessed for medical recognition as a disability? @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social @harvardcmes.bsky.social

A record number of people are leaving the Philippines to work in Taiwanese semiconductor factories, where they face long shifts, low pay, unequal treatment and the threat of deportation, report Hsiuwen Liu and @michaelbeltran.bsky.social for @restofworld.org restofworld.org/2025/filipin...

One person who has benefited from AquaBounty coming to Pioneer is the town’s mayor. His company bought land for $600K before the deal was publicly announced, then flipped that property to AquaBounty for ~$2.1M. (Published Feb. 18)

Proud to see Ping-hsiu Lin's article out now in @csshjournal.bsky.social! Open access too! doi.org/10.1017/S001... cc @harvard-jchs.bsky.social

NEW: Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it. By @jessicamiller.bsky.social, with @sltrib.com

Here is an excerpt-essay from my article-in-progress, tentatively titled “The Courage and the Scourge of Caring: Coal Miners’ Earthquake Search and Rescue Work.” I recently workshopped it at Duke, as part of the Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project. www.revaluingcare.org/the-courage-...

A highly recommended read if you're interested in learning about the dynamics of the ongoing protests in Turkey: jacobin.com/2025/04/labo...

Here is an excerpt-essay from my article-in-progress, tentatively titled “The Courage and the Scourge of Caring: Coal Miners’ Earthquake Search and Rescue Work.” I recently workshopped it at Duke, as part of the Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project. www.revaluingcare.org/the-courage-...

Check out the Call for Abstracts for our panel titled “Somatization of Disasters: Rethinking Event and Embodied Temporalities in the Middle East.” This will be a roundtable discussion fueled by the pessimism of the intellect and the optimism of the will. mesana.org/annual-meeti...

Elif Irem Az's beautiful-yet-heartbreaking ethnographic poetry is featured this week in the Highlights section of the American Anthropologist website, exploring the miners' lives in the aftermath of a disaster. 📖 Read it here: americananthropologist.org/online-conte... @labspeceth.bsky.social