Capitalism opened up untold vistas of unlimited productivity. But where do we fit care-labor and social reproduction in all this?

Tropics of Meta has not and likely will not come out with an endorsement in the 2020 US presidential race. But the handsy guy… let’s go with a “no.”

A week of truly epic, virtuosic horse-shit reached its tragic crescendo today, with the murder of at least […]

It has been over thirty years since Joan C. Scott let the historical profession know that gender is a “useful category of analysis.” (How many academic journal articles get their own Wikipedia page? Not many I assume.)

What a week. America saw two great injustices visited on the undeserving among us: Mexican businessman Joaquín “El Chapo” […]

There are two dirty secrets about grad school, at least where money is concerned.

What a difference five weeks of pointless, mind-numbing misery, humiliation, and dysfunction makes, huh?  Our big wet president […]

This post is a very tentative sketch of a new research project, building on the ideas explored in […]