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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.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. --- America. --- American Studies. --- Contemporary. --- Cultural Studies. --- Culture. --- Interdisciplinarity. --- Media Theory. --- Popular Culture.

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The American cultural imaginary is hungry for death, and thus representations of death are prominently repeated and serialized in US literature and media. Stella Castelli shows how American culture fetishizes death as part of a repetition compulsion which stems from language's inability to satisfactorily grasp death. Taking an intermedial approach, she investigates the forms and tropes born from this preoccupation with death and conceptualizes its imagination alongside an appetite which manifests as repetitive encoding. These metaphors of food consumption provide a hermeneutic framing for analyzing representations of death across American literature and media.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. --- America. --- Cultural Studies. --- Film. --- Literature. --- Media. --- Popular Culture. --- Television.

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Superheld*innen sind in der Krise: Gut und Böse, Richtig und Falsch sind nach starken sozialen und politischen Umbrüchen längst nicht mehr klar und eindeutig. Für das Genre ein eklatantes Problem. Religion und Glaube könnten hier Orientierung bieten, verlieren aber - so der gängige Vorwurf - ihrerseits immer stärker an Bedeutung in einer säkularen Welt. Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes bieten einen ersten Zugang zu diesem Phänomen und kommen zu dem erstaunlichen Befund, dass religiöse Motivik dagegen ungebrochene Hochkonjunktur in der superheroischen Popkultur feiert. Figuren, Themen, Ikonographie, Symbole: das religiöse Spielfeld des Superheroismus ist mannigfaltig.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. --- Christianity. --- Comic. --- Cultural Studies. --- Film. --- Literature. --- Popular Culture. --- Religious Studies. --- Superheroes.

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We live in an era where the university system is undergoing great changes owing to developments in financing policies and research priorities, as well as changes in the society in which this system is embedded. This change toward a more market-oriented university, which also has immediate effects in academic peripheries such as the Balkans, the Middle East, or South-East Asia, is of great influence for the pedagogical practice of "less profitable" academic areas such as the Humanities: philosophy, languages, sociology, anthropology, history. Because of the absence of a historically grounded establishment of the Humanities, academic peripheries, usually accompanied by a weak civil society infrastructure, seem to offer the most fertile ground for rethinking the Humanities, their pedagogical practice, and their politics, as well as the greatest threats, such as the ongoing capitalization of research, and profitability as the norm of educational achievement. The sprawling presence of for-profit universities and in academic peripheries such as Albania and Kosovo is indicative of this problematic, as are consistent underfunding of universities and the relentless budget cuts in American and English, and to a lesser extent European, universities. Motivations for this ongoing attack on the university are often driven by a political system or a politics with an aggressive stance to critical thought.

Social Science / Popular Culture. --- Popular culture. --- Theory and practice of education. --- pedagogy --- humanities --- philosophy --- catastrophe --- university

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Als Konsequenz aus der Kritik an ethnisierenden Kulturbegriffen baut Klaus P. Hansen seit Ende der 2000er-Jahre seine Kultur- zur Kollektivtheorie um. Statt kulturelle Standardisierungen mehr oder weniger unreflektiert Ethnien oder Nationen zuzuschreiben, stellt er explizit die Frage nach den Kulturträgern selbst: Kollektive jeder Form, Größe und Struktur. Im Zentrum dieses Denkens stehen intra- und transkollektive Gemeinsamkeiten, Mehrfachzugehörigkeiten und die unauflösbare Spannung zwischen Homogenisierungs- und Heterogenisierungsprozessen. Die Beiträger*innen dieser Festschrift für Klaus P. Hansen kommentieren den Kollektivansatz aus verschiedensten disziplinären Perspektiven und denken ihn konstruktiv weiter.

Collectivism. --- Cultural History. --- Cultural Studies. --- Culture. --- Heterogenization. --- Homogenization. --- Social Theory. --- Sociological Theory. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.