Original Exertions

The recent media focus on whether Supreme Court justices mask in hearings shows all the ways in which Supreme Court justices are part of a workplace that shares many of the same dilemmas that other US workplaces facein the pandemic.

This photo essay both documents new forms of worker publicity and seeks to respond to the representational gaps that these forms have revealed.

How does refugee labor figure as both neoliberal resilience building and a hopeful attempt to find a viable livelihood?

A review essay examining two recent ethnographies by Erik Henningsen and Felix Stein.

In the context of foreign-owned industrial farms in Brazil, the concept of the Plantationocene shows the racial dynamics of power and capital but obscures the fighting back of people, plants, and soils.

Brie Berry (Ursinus College) reflects on the emotional burdens of reuse economies and the problem of waste.

A videoessay on AI labor, authored by Dayna McLeod, drawing upon labor from an AI writer and AI voice actor. Additional commentary by Lisa Messeri.

Reflections on the special issue of Anthropology of Work Review, "Immunocapital and Capitalist Immunities"