In fifteen lively and stimulating essays centered on critical key works, Culture^2 reflects on how to do cultural studies in the twenty-first century.

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.

Autorentext
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«.