Matthew Wolf-Meyer

Matthew Wolf-Meyer edits the Systems & Futures section of Public Books. He is trained as a cultural anthropologist and social historian and is fixated on the history and contemporary practice of medicine and science in the US and the ways they naturalize ideas about disability, independence, and human nature. He’s compelled by the ways that futures and systems become embodied realities. He is the author of The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine and Modern American Life; Theory for the World to Come: Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology; Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age; and American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within, all published by the University of Minnesota Press.