Posthumanist Cultural Studies : Towards a Toolbox for the Capitalocene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cord, Florian.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2026.

Summary:

What does it mean to do cultural studies in the age of climate change, biodiversity loss, and global pandemics? Florian Cord argues that what is needed is a discipline that is less anthropocentric and more attuned to the nonhuman, be it animals, plants, rocks, ecosystems, or technologies.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Previous Publications

Introduction. Into the Muddle

Works Cited

Part I - Posthumanizing Cultural Studies

1. Posthumanist Cultural Studies: Taking the Nonhuman Seriously

The Nonhuman Turn

Cultural Studies‐in‐Encounter

For Multiple Vision: Theory as Muddle

2. (Re‑)Assembling Cultural Studies

Cultural Studies and Messiness

Complexified Being: Rethinking the 'Magical Triangle' of Cultural Studies

Culture

Power

Identity

New Cartographies

Postscript. Political Ontologies: Cultural Studies and the Nonhuman Turn

Part II - Tools

3. Critique, Repair, Escalation: Three Modes of Posthumanist Theorizing

The Modes of Posthumanist Theory and the Cultural Studies Kraken

The Hammer: Critique

Glue: Repair

The Accelerator: Escalation

The Uses of Tentacularity

Excursus. In Repair: The Reparative as Theoretical Mode and Structure of Feeling in Times of Crisis. An Outline

Node 1: The Relational‐Material

Node 2: The Experiential‐Ordinary

Node 3: The Possible‐Futural

4. 'Humanity Recedes like a Loathsome Dream': Nick Land, Ahuman Becoming, and Cultural Studies

Accelerationism and the Cultural Studies Beachcomber

Introducing Nick Land

Dismantling the Human Security System

The Uses of Nick Land

5. Cyclonoplicity: Impurity Politics for the Anthropocene

Part III - From Theory to Practice: Doing Cultural Studies in the Capitalocene

6. Soft Totalities: Conjunctural Analysis and/as Assemblage Analysis

7. A Case Study of Covid‑19: Towards a Montage of the Pandemic Assemblage

Pin 1: Posthuman Object / Emergence

Pin 2: Disease Emergence

Pin 3: Pinboard

Pin 4: Mask / Cultural Object.

Pin 5: Moral Panic / Theme

Pin 6: Conjuncture / Epoch

Pin 7: Virus / Biopolitics

Coda. Towards an Insurgent Zombie Collective (or, Welcome to the Zombiecene!)

Politics

Economy

Theory

AcademyIdeology

Works Cited.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783839477472

OCLC:

1611809760