Editors’ Introduction: Cultural Studies toward a Free Palestine

The World as Abyss

Andrew Culp and Cultural Studies Association’s Black and Race Studies Working Group Co-Host Shauna Rigaud discuss The World as Abyss: The Caribbean and Critical Thought in the Anthropocene (Univers...

Cringe Theory

Cringe theory is a framework intended to make sense of cringe as a cultural and political phenomenon that has come to condition how disability is understood in the contemporary American public...

Review of Plastic Matter by Heather Davis (Duke University Press)

Heather Davis's Plastic Matter sheds light on the implications of plastic's synthetic universality, inviting readers to reflect critically on their relationship with plastic material and also with...

Review of Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago by Kemi Adeyemi...

Following the movements of Black queer women on queer dance floors in Chicago, Kemi Adeyemi shows how race, feeling, and the geography of the neoliberal city are spatially entangled. Black queer...

Review of Death’s Futurity: The Visual Life of Black Power by Sampada Aranke (Duke University Press)

Sampada Aranke’s Death’s Futurity: The Visual Life of Black Power begins by insisting on the importance of visual culture to the Black Panther Party’s platform before exploring the Party’s use of...

Review of Passionate Work: Endurance After the Good Life by Renyi Hong (Duke University Press)

In Passionate Work, Hong argues that passion at work is an affective structure perpetuated by capitalism to maintain its injustices and discipline workers. Examining historical managerial texts and...

Review of Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Social Media’s Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property...

In her second book, Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Social Media’s Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property, Minh-ha T. Pham continues her examination of fashion’s digital labors, by analyzing what...

"Whose house? Our house!": Streaming Revolution During the US Capitol Riot

This article analyzes videos shared during the United States Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, where supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol Building in an attempt to disrupt...

Regional Mobilities, Technology and the Status of Myth in Africa: Retrieving Musical/Creative Codes...

This article tracks my intellectual journey in trying to understand the role played by craft specializations before the colonial era in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), which is the area where I come...

Editors’ Introduction: Cultural Studies toward a Free Palestine

Responding to Palestinian organizers' calls to use our voice, continue to engage in conversations, and to speak out, this statement articulates what we see as the abolitionist and anti-colonial way...

Review of Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis & Cultural Strategy by Ben Davis (Haymarket...

The eight essays in Ben Davis’ Art in the After-Culture are centered on the interchanges between cultural production and economic development in contemporary society. Largely told through the lens of...