Natalie Baker with Paul Mattick

Security Studies professor Natalie Baker and the Rail’s Field Notes editor Paul Mattick discuss creative life in the context of our new social reality.

Natalie Baker (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Security Studies at Sam Houston State University in Texas. She has conducted a number of research projects focused on security issues broadly, ranging from the Ebola scare in the US to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Her work rests in the intersections of security, sociology, science and technology studies, media studies, and critical theory.

Paul Mattick (he/him) is editor of the Field Notes section in the Brooklyn Rail and the author of numerous books, most recently Business as Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism (Reaktion Books, 2011).

In the Rail:

• Disaster Preparedness is an Illusion (April 2018)
• Natalie Baker with Sammy Feldblum (Nov 2012)

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