Culture^2: Theorizing Theory for the Twenty-First Century, Vol. 1

267 Pages·2022·4.278 MB·English

by  Frank Kelleter, Alexander Starre

Frank Kelleter, Alexander Starre (eds.)
Culture2
American Culture Studies | Volume 34
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 Founda-
tion fellow and has previously taught at the Universität Göttingen and at Brown
University. Current research interests are knowledge production, literary institu-
tions, 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).
Frank Kelleter, Alexander Starre (eds.)
Culture2
Theorizing Theory for the Twenty-First Century, Vol. 1
This publication was financed in part by the open access fund for monographs and
edited volumes of the Freie Universität Berlin.

Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foun-
dation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy in the context of the Cluster of Ex-
cellence Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective - EXC
2020 - Project ID 390608380.
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Contents
Culture2:Entry
FrankKelleter&AlexanderStarre.................................................. 13
Form| Critique
1. MaketheDialecticGreatAgain!
OnPostcritiqueinRitaFelski’sTheLimitsofCritique(2015)
J.JesseRamírez............................................................ 19
2. OnlyaMatterofForm?
OnCarolineLevine’sForms(2015)
UllaHaselstein ..............................................................33
3. Relate,Resist,Resurface
OnStefanoHarneyandFredMoten’sTheUndercommons(2013)
DustinBreitenwischer........................................................49
TheLateGreatAgeofLiterature
4. TheMcGurlEra?
LiteraryHistory,PeakCollege,andTheProgramEra(2009)
KathrynS.Roberts...........................................................65
5. ReadingandWriting(at)theSiteoftheSocial
Or,DavidAlworth’sSiteReading(2015)asaPandemic-Proof
ModelofCulturalCritique
LauraBieger................................................................ 81
HumansandOtherSpecies
6. Cloud-ReadingwithJohnDurhamPeters’sThe Marvelous
Clouds (2015)
SarahWasserman ...........................................................97
7. InfiniteFungus
Capitalism,NatureWriting,andAnnaLowenhauptTsing’s
The MushroomattheEndoftheWorld(2015)
ChristophRibbat.............................................................113
StructuresofFeministFeelingandStorytelling
8. SortingthroughFeministCabinetswithClareHemmings’s
WhyStoriesMatter (2011)
MariaSulimma ............................................................. 127
9. Affect,thePopular,andVoguesofFeelinginPopCulture
(Studies)
OnRobynWarhol’sHavingaGoodCry(2003)
KatjaKanzler...............................................................143
Cruel Optimism
10. StyleunderStress
QuotabilityandDisasterinLaurenBerlant’sCruelOptimism(2011)
FrankKelleter..............................................................159
11. StructuresoftheImpasse
NoteswithandathwartLaurenBerlant’sCruelOptimism(2011)
SamuelZipp................................................................189
InterDisciplinaryAnxieties
12. AConnexionistBartleby?
AMelvilleanReadingofLucBoltanskiandÈveChiapello’s
TheNewSpiritofCapitalism(1999/2005)
StefanieMueller............................................................201
13. OfApesandChildren
Communication,Interdisciplinarity,andMichaelTomasello’s
WhyWeCooperate(2009)
PhilippLöffler..............................................................213
AmericanRedescriptions
14. PolarizationandtheLimitsofEmpathy
OnArlieRussellHochschild’sStrangersinTheirOwnLand(2016)
JohannesVoelz.............................................................229
15. ThickRedescription
NarratingSocioculturalFormswithMatthewDesmond’sEvicted
(2016)
AlexanderStarre ...........................................................249
Contributors.................................................................263

Works in Chronological Order
LucBoltanskiandÈveChiapello,TheNewSpiritofCapitalism(1999/2005)
Robyn Warhol, Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Pop-culture Forms
(2003)
MarkMcGurl,TheProgramEra:PostwarFictionandtheRiseofCreativeWriting
(2009)
MichaelTomasello,WhyWeCooperate(2009)
ClareHemmings,WhyStoriesMatter:ThePoliticalGrammarofFeministTheory
(2011)
LaurenBerlant,CruelOptimism(2011)
StefanoHarneyandFredMoten,TheUndercommons:FugitivePlanning&Black
Study(2013)
DavidAlworth,SiteReading:Fiction,Art,SocialForm(2015)
RitaFelski,TheLimitsofCritique(2015)
CarolineLevine,Forms:Whole,Rhythm,Hierarchy,Network(2015)
John Durham Peters, The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental
Media(2015)
AnnaLowenhauptTsing,TheMushroomattheEndoftheWorld:OnthePossibility
ofLifeinCapitalistRuins(2015)
ArlieRussellHochschild,StrangersinTheirOwnLand:AngerandMourningon
theAmericanRight(2016)
MatthewDesmond,Evicted:PovertyandProfitintheAmericanCity(2016)