About

David Michalski is the Social and Cultural Studies Librarian at University of California, Davis. Alongside his work as a bibliographer and librarian, Michalski is a cultural theorist and student of ethnography specializing on the social meaning of taste and the creation of value in consumer society. He received a Ph.D in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory from the University of California, Davis in 2010 for his dissertation Taste After Taste: On the Aesthetic Invitation of Wine. He is the editor of the journal Streetnotes and the author of The Dialectic of Taste (Palgrave, 2015), and Cosmos and Damian: a World Trade Center Collage (Bootstrap Press, 2005). His work on the relation between aesthetics and cultural geography has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies.