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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. He ›diffractively‹ reads cultural studies and the nonhuman turn through each other, putting the former in dialogue with recent approaches such as actor-network theory, new materialism, speculative realism, affect theory, and object-oriented ontology. The result is a thoroughly revised discipline, one capable of making a significant contribution to the contemporary struggles for more livable and just futures – a cultural studies for the Capitalocene.
Price: $55.00
Pages: 300
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Critical Futures
Publication Date:
31 August 2026
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837681611
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
»Florian Cord asks what a critical theory for the Anthropocene might look like and, in doing so, revivifies the project of Cultural Studies as a dynamic, evolving field focused on social change. Arguing for Critical Posthumanism as a theoretical position necessary to interrogating the complexity of contemporary culture, Cord offers a new toolbox for theorists committed to taking the nonhuman seriously as part of a strategy for re-politicising the everyday in the era of cyber-capitalism and climate crisis. Offering the Covid-19 pandemic as a paradigmatic case study, Posthumanist Cultural Studies establishes an important new methodology for exploring the ›circuit of culture‹ while re-conceiving the human as an always already entangled ontology.«
Florian Cord is lecturer for English literatures and cultures at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. He held positions in Dresden, Leipzig, and Würzburg. His research focuses on cultural studies, especially the theory and analysis of crisis and the intersections of culture, power, and subjecthood.