Just wanted to mention that Public Books just released my review of Holbraad and Pedersen’s The Ontological Turn: An Anthropological Exposition; it was a hard review to write, as Public Books (rightly) prizes writing that is at once accessible to people outside of the discipline, but also ask for real contributions to the discussion on the topic. I have a lot of respect for ontological discussion in anthropology, even if I’m not exactly a fellow traveler, but at the same time I understand what is grounding a lot of the critical arguments, and well as private grumbling, that was directed against the turn when things were at their hight. I hope I found the right balance.

I also have some other stuff out – like a book chapter in this fine volume – but I want to talk about it later, since another essay in this volume has a critique of me, based off of something I wrote in this very blog! Which is some kind of coming around full circle, or perhaps merely a circular death spiral, but either way involves a greater discussion than what I can spare now.