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 Foundation fellow and has previously taught at the Universität Göttingen and at Brown University. Current research interests are knowledge production, literary institutions, 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).

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Works in Chronological Order 9
Entry 11
Culture2: Entry 13
1. Make the Dialectic Great Again! 19
2. Only a Matter of Form? 33
3. Relate, Resist, Resurface 49
4. The McGurl Era? 65
5. Reading and Writing (at) the Site of the Social 81
6. Cloud-Reading with John Durham Peters's The Marvelous Clouds (2015) 97
7. Infinite Fungus 113
8. Sorting through Feminist Cabinets with Clare Hemmings's Why Stories Matter (2011) 127
9. Affect, the Popular, and Vogues of Feeling in Pop Culture (Studies) 143
10. Style under Stress 159
11. Structures of the Impasse 189
12. A Connexionist Bartleby? 201
13. Of Apes and Children 213
14. Polarization and the Limits of Empathy 229
15. Thick Redescription 249
Contributors 263