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Culture^2

Theorizing Theory for the Twenty-First Century, Vol. 1
  • Edited by: Frank Kelleter and Alexander Starre
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2022
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About this book

How to do cultural studies in the twenty-first century? This essay collection is not a handbook, encyclopedia, or a »state of the field« compendium. Instead, it is a reflexive exercise in cultural studies, featuring fifteen accessible essays on a selection of critical key works published since 2000. The contributors aim to provide readers with a fresh and engaging look at recent criticism, exploring the interdisciplinary traffic of theories, methods, and ideas within the field of cultural and literary studies. This book shows how the work of Lauren Berlant, Rita Felski, Fred Moten, Anna Tsing, and others can inspire new thinking and theorizing for the twenty-first century.

Author / Editor information

Contributor: Frank Kelleter

Frank Kelleter ist Lehrstuhlinhaber für Nordamerikastudien an der Universität Göttingen. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind die amerikanische Kolonialzeit und Aufklärung, Theorien der amerikanischen Moderne und die amerikanische Medienkultur. Er ist Sprecher der DFG-Forschergruppe »Ästhetik und Praxis populärer Serialität«.

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Frank Kelleter and Alexander Starre
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Form . Critique

On Postcritique in Rita Felski’s The Limits of Critique (2015)
J. Jesse Ramírez
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On Caroline Levine’s Forms (2015)
Ulla Haselstein
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On Stefano Harney and Fred Moten’s The Undercommons (2013)
Dustin Breitenwischer
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The Late Great Age of Literature

Literary History, Peak College, and The Program Era (2009)
Kathryn S. Roberts
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Or, David Alworth’s Site Reading (2015) as a Pandemic-Proof Model of Cultural Critique
Laura Bieger
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Humans and Other Species

Sarah Wasserman
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Capitalism, Nature Writing, and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015)
Christoph Ribbat
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Structures of Feminist Feeling and Storytelling

Maria Sulimma
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On Robyn Warhol’s Having a Good Cry (2003)
Katja Kanzler
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Cruel Optimism

Quotability and Disaster in Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism (2011)
Frank Kelleter
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Notes with and athwart Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism (2011)
Samuel Zipp
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Inter Disciplinary Anxieties

A Melvillean Reading of Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello’s The New Spirit of Capitalism (1999/2005)
Stefanie Mueller
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Communication, Interdisciplinarity, and Michael Tomasello’s Why We Cooperate (2009)
Philipp Löffler
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American Redescriptions

On Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers in Their Own Land (2016)
Johannes Voelz
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Narrating Sociocultural Forms with Matthew Desmond’s Evicted (2016)
Alexander Starre
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March 24, 2022
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9783839457870
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