
Lachlan Summers
Seeking revenue and respect
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"Mexico City is Two Hours from Mexico City" for University of California Press [forthcoming someday]
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"Portraits in Absentia" for Current Anthropology [forthcoming 2026? 2027?]
!["Four Dreams from the Meanwhile of Mexican History" for Public Culture [forthcoming May 2026] thumbnail](https://media.bio.site/sites/7cfd339b-84c0-410f-9341-85c6646180bd/rieKHVUSaBMijtBzrX9FiX.png)
"Four Dreams from the Meanwhile of Mexican History" for Public Culture [forthcoming May 2026]
!["These Compulsive Assertions of Contingency" (with Cameron Hu) for Society for Cultural Anthroplogy [2026] thumbnail](https://media.bio.site/sites/7cfd339b-84c0-410f-9341-85c6646180bd/gm9dmpvz8cjaPn6EN3SSDJ.png)
"These Compulsive Assertions of Contingency" (with Cameron Hu) for Society for Cultural Anthroplogy [2026]
!["Who Is Ethnography For?" for Society for Cultural Anthropology [2025] thumbnail](https://media.bio.site/sites/7cfd339b-84c0-410f-9341-85c6646180bd/bVbouaWXNspBrh3t5FsCXV.jpg)
"Who Is Ethnography For?" for Society for Cultural Anthropology [2025]
!["Touched by Deep Time" for Cultural Anthropology [2025] thumbnail](https://media.bio.site/sites/7cfd339b-84c0-410f-9341-85c6646180bd/J7qeHWaVbJAF7Z9h5NazyU.png)
"Touched by Deep Time" for Cultural Anthropology [2025]
!["Negotiating the 'Geo' of Cold War Geopolitics" for Global Perspectives [2025] thumbnail](https://media.bio.site/sites/7cfd339b-84c0-410f-9341-85c6646180bd/PJJCVuxzsiEYDzoPz8pAKk.jpg)
"Negotiating the 'Geo' of Cold War Geopolitics" for Global Perspectives [2025]
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"Genova al Pesto" installation for Studio Florìda [2025]
!["The House is Coming from Inside the Call" for American Anthropologist [2024] thumbnail](https://media.bio.site/sites/7cfd339b-84c0-410f-9341-85c6646180bd/Lzrt2AZRpMgoDsf3yCZKbJ.png)
"The House is Coming from Inside the Call" for American Anthropologist [2024]
!["A Building is a Mouth Through Which the Earth Speaks" for Log [2024] thumbnail](https://media.bio.site/sites/7cfd339b-84c0-410f-9341-85c6646180bd/WUxttaNRdhBGUwxfza5oYA.jpg)
"A Building is a Mouth Through Which the Earth Speaks" for Log [2024]
!["Five Million Years on the Right Side of History" for Griffith Review [2024] thumbnail](https://media.bio.site/sites/7cfd339b-84c0-410f-9341-85c6646180bd/dxuMEFB7ABivVCR3hT8xV7.png)
"Five Million Years on the Right Side of History" for Griffith Review [2024]
!["At First We Tried Ignoring Him" for DON'T SUBMIT [2024] thumbnail](https://media.bio.site/sites/7cfd339b-84c0-410f-9341-85c6646180bd/aEVWX8pvXg4s9JDZDkbD4A.png)
"At First We Tried Ignoring Him" for DON'T SUBMIT [2024]
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"Rabbitholing" for Voidspace [2024]
!["If You Sleep in Someone Else's Bed, You Get Their Dreams" for Maudlin House [2024] thumbnail](https://media.bio.site/sites/7cfd339b-84c0-410f-9341-85c6646180bd/Q23KfhVXktgfuvkiKwWLSb.png)
"If You Sleep in Someone Else's Bed, You Get Their Dreams" for Maudlin House [2024]
!["Seized by a Ceaseless Meanwhile" for Griffith Review [2024] thumbnail](https://media.bio.site/sites/7cfd339b-84c0-410f-9341-85c6646180bd/tmotx9wKm7Rp63QxZH3Dck.png)
"Seized by a Ceaseless Meanwhile" for Griffith Review [2024]
!["Dog Person" for Scribes Micro [2024] thumbnail](https://media.bio.site/sites/7cfd339b-84c0-410f-9341-85c6646180bd/vmnsvBJW34HDiz86iFg3Af.png)
"Dog Person" for Scribes Micro [2024]
!["Handling It: Acting Like a Team, Thinking Like a Society" for Society for Cultural Anthropology [2023] thumbnail](https://media.bio.site/sites/7cfd339b-84c0-410f-9341-85c6646180bd/ipQQE4sPieEJmSJLJ96D5E.jpg)
"Handling It: Acting Like a Team, Thinking Like a Society" for Society for Cultural Anthropology [2023]
!["When Does After Begin?" for Aeon Magazine [2023] thumbnail](https://media.bio.site/sites/7cfd339b-84c0-410f-9341-85c6646180bd/4aapz7nn9VQa7FXuSQuyeZ.png)
"When Does After Begin?" for Aeon Magazine [2023]
!["A Claxonomy of Mexico City's Traffic" for Allegra [2023] thumbnail](https://media.bio.site/sites/7cfd339b-84c0-410f-9341-85c6646180bd/PPanh8R4mtz3HRN5KihpQL.jpg)
"A Claxonomy of Mexico City's Traffic" for Allegra [2023]
!["Deep Time Sickness" for Noēma Magazine [2022] thumbnail](https://media.bio.site/sites/7cfd339b-84c0-410f-9341-85c6646180bd/SkyiVdmEDCTDvKW63jAGNL.png)
"Deep Time Sickness" for Noēma Magazine [2022]
!["An Almanac of Immeasurable Things" for Overland [2022] thumbnail](https://media.bio.site/sites/7cfd339b-84c0-410f-9341-85c6646180bd/DND3utapKvBEAyeQTUfxY6.png)
"An Almanac of Immeasurable Things" for Overland [2022]
!["It's a Yes or No Question" for JAKE Magazine [2021] thumbnail](https://media.bio.site/sites/7cfd339b-84c0-410f-9341-85c6646180bd/ZMuaRfD9uNu59rUeWPQR7F.png)
"It's a Yes or No Question" for JAKE Magazine [2021]
![“Naming Storms” for Real Life Magazine [2021] thumbnail](https://media.bio.site/sites/7cfd339b-84c0-410f-9341-85c6646180bd/duVG9v5CsRiwcr9GwVmMYB.png)
“Naming Storms” for Real Life Magazine [2021]
!["When Police Pass the Baton to Campuses" for Exertions [2020] thumbnail](https://media.bio.site/sites/7cfd339b-84c0-410f-9341-85c6646180bd/WiJS5KBbGutov2sVdr69EV.png)
"When Police Pass the Baton to Campuses" for Exertions [2020]
![Review of "The End of the Future" by Bartholomew Dean, for Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute [2025] thumbnail](https://media.bio.site/sites/7cfd339b-84c0-410f-9341-85c6646180bd/f2hNz6mJmYKV8FqG6hpRfA.png)
Review of "The End of the Future" by Bartholomew Dean, for Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute [2025]
![Review of "The Life of a Pest" by Emily Wanderer, for Anthropological Forum [2021] thumbnail](https://media.bio.site/sites/7cfd339b-84c0-410f-9341-85c6646180bd/SS4urUPjS3k2Wq9u98KwGE.png)
Review of "The Life of a Pest" by Emily Wanderer, for Anthropological Forum [2021]
![Review of "Watering the Revolution" by Mikael Wolfe, for Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research [2019] thumbnail](https://media.bio.site/sites/7cfd339b-84c0-410f-9341-85c6646180bd/d8busc4hAcAZ9PehyKd5gU.png)
Review of "Watering the Revolution" by Mikael Wolfe, for Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research [2019]
![Review of "There is No More Haiti" by Greg Beckett, for London School of Economics Review of Books [2019] thumbnail](https://media.bio.site/sites/7cfd339b-84c0-410f-9341-85c6646180bd/sp2bakAPoaGN4zbiwog6Z7.png)
Review of "There is No More Haiti" by Greg Beckett, for London School of Economics Review of Books [2019]
![Review of "Paradoxes of Green" by Gareth Doherty, for Human Ecology [2017] thumbnail](https://media.bio.site/sites/7cfd339b-84c0-410f-9341-85c6646180bd/bHwBWLW6FBfH4gt3TxDqXd.png)
Review of "Paradoxes of Green" by Gareth Doherty, for Human Ecology [2017]
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Living List of Things I Think Are Good [forever]