Decay

"This innovative and ethnographically tantalizing book presents the notion of decay as a keyword for our times-times that are depressive and apocalyptic-and connects it to a broad array of terms that circulate in today's pop culture and critical scholarship. Decay's punchy and insightful essays introduce readers to an exciting new terrain in social theory, one that is good to think with and pregnant with possibility." - Charles Piot, author of (The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles) "Striking out at the lack of decay in our conceptual approaches, Decay encourages anthropologists to examine entropy and the tendency toward disorder as a new way of thinking about social change, persistence, and relationality." - Elizabeth A. Povinelli, author of (Between Gaia and Ground: Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism) "These essays in Decay provide an attractive opening invitation for further thought. Taking up the difficult task of uniting a disparate number of biological, physical, organisational, moral, political, personal and social concerns, they are provocative, imaginative and stimulating in their reach." - Helen Mackreath (LSE Review of Books)