Funahashi’s work attends to moments of negativity, singularity, and accident – all instances that fall out of the calculation of political and economic projects that attempt to transform the fabric of the real. In addressing the limits of what could be projected and articulated, she is particularly interested in rethinking political economy, political legitimacy, and scientific authority through what remains illegible to what we believe we can make legible.
In her first book Untimely Sacrifices: Work and Death in Finland (Cornell University Press 2023), Funahashi brings...
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