Culture^2

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Culture^2

Theorizing Theory for the Twenty-First Century, Vol. 1

Edited by: Frank Kelleter and Alexander Starre

Volume 34 in the series American Culture Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839457870

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About this book

How to do cultural studies in the 21st 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 information

Frank Kelleter is chair of the Department of Culture at John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. His main fields of interest include the American Colonial and Enlightenment periods, theories of American modernity, and American media and popular culture. Select publications: Media of Serial Narrative (ed., 2017), David Bowie (Reclam, 2016), Serial Agencies: The Wire and Its Readers (2014).
Alexander Starre is assistant professor of North American culture at the John F. Kennedy Institute at Freie Universität Berlin. He is a former Humboldt Foundation fellow and has previously taught at the Universität Göttingen and at Brown University. Current research interests are knowledge production, literary institutions, and late 19th/early 20th-century American culture. His publications include Metamedia (2015), Projecting American Studies (ed., 2018), and The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture (ed., 2019).

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Works in Chronological Order Open Access Download PDF	9
Entry Open Access Download PDF	11
Culture²: Entry Frank Kelleter and Alexander Starre Open Access Download PDF	13
Form . Critique
1. Make the Dialectic Great Again! On Postcritique in Rita Felski’s The Limits of Critique (2015) J. Jesse Ramírez Open Access Download PDF	19
2. Only a Matter of Form? On Caroline Levine’s Forms (2015) Ulla Haselstein Open Access Download PDF	33
3. Relate, Resist, Resurface On Stefano Harney and Fred Moten’s The Undercommons (2013) Dustin Breitenwischer Open Access Download PDF	49
The Late Great Age of Literature
4. The McGurl Era? Literary History, Peak College, and The Program Era (2009) Kathryn S. Roberts Open Access Download PDF	65
5. Reading and Writing (at) the Site of the Social Or, David Alworth’s Site Reading (2015) as a Pandemic-Proof Model of Cultural Critique Laura Bieger Open Access Download PDF	81
Humans and Other Species
6. Cloud-Reading with John Durham Peters’s The Marvelous Clouds (2015) Sarah Wasserman Open Access Download PDF	97
7. Infinite Fungus Capitalism, Nature Writing, and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015) Christoph Ribbat Open Access Download PDF	113
Structures of Feminist Feeling and Storytelling
8. Sorting through Feminist Cabinets with Clare Hemmings’s Why Stories Matter (2011) Maria Sulimma Open Access Download PDF	127
9. Affect, the Popular, and Vogues of Feeling in Pop Culture (Studies) On Robyn Warhol’s Having a Good Cry (2003) Katja Kanzler Open Access Download PDF	143
Cruel Optimism
10. Style under Stress Quotability and Disaster in Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism (2011) Frank Kelleter Open Access Download PDF	159
11. Structures of the Impasse Notes with and athwart Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism (2011) Samuel Zipp Open Access Download PDF	189
Inter Disciplinary Anxieties
12. A Connexionist Bartleby? A Melvillean Reading of Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello’s The New Spirit of Capitalism (1999/2005) Stefanie Mueller Open Access Download PDF	201
13. Of Apes and Children Communication, Interdisciplinarity, and Michael Tomasello’s Why We Cooperate (2009) Philipp Löffler Open Access Download PDF	213
American Redescriptions
14. Polarization and the Limits of Empathy On Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers in Their Own Land (2016) Johannes Voelz Open Access Download PDF	229
15. Thick Redescription Narrating Sociocultural Forms with Matthew Desmond’s Evicted (2016) Alexander Starre Open Access Download PDF	249
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	263

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 266
Keywords: Media Theory; Popular Culture; Interdisciplinarity; Contemporary; Culture; America; American Studies; Cultural Studies

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Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9783839457870