Imre Szeman is a Canada Research Chair of Cultural Studies and Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, and adjunct professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the Ontario College of Art and Design University. He is the founder of the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies and a founding member of the US Cultural Studies Association. He is the author or editor of many books, including most recently, Contemporary Marxist Theory: An Anthology (2014), Popular Culture: A User's Guide (3rd revised edition, 2013), After Globalization (Wiley Blackwell, 2011), and Cultural Theory: An Anthology (Wiley Blackwell, 2010).Sarah Blacker is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany. Located at the intersection of science and technology studies, critical theory, and cultural studies, her research explores the politics of genomic medicine and health disparities' relation to racial inequalities in North America. She is co-editor of the journal Reviews in Cultural Theory. Justin Sully teaches literary and cultural studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. His research tracks the cultural history of statistics and the political aesthetics of enumeration in film, television, and digital media. He is co-editor of the journal Reviews in Cultural Theory.

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• Contributors ixAcknowledgments xvIntroduction xviiImre Szeman, Sarah Blacker, and Justin SullyPart I Lineages 11 Frankfurt – New York – San Diego 1924–1968; or, Critical Theory 3Andrew Pendakis2 Vienna 1899 – Paris 1981; or, Psychoanalysis 25James Penney3 Paris 1955–1968; or, Structuralism 41Sean Homer4 Birmingham – Urbana‐Champaign 1964–1990; or, Cultural Studies 59Paul Smith5 Baltimore – New Haven 1966–1983; or, Deconstruction 73Michael O’Driscoll6 Paris – Boston – Berkeley – the Mexico/Texas Borderlands 1949–1990; or, Gender and Sexuality 91Sarah Brophy7 Delhi/Ahmednagar Fort – Washington, DC/Birmingham Jail – Pretoria/Robben Island 1947–1994; or, Race, Colonialism, Postcolonialism 115Neil ten Kortenaar8 Petrograd/Leningrad – Havana – Beijing 1917–1991; or, Marxist Theory and Socialist Practice 129Peter Hitchcock9 Chile – Seattle – Cairo 1973–2017?; or, Globalization and Neoliberalism 147Myka Tucker‐AbramsonPart II Problematics 167Section A: Living and Laboring 16710 Subjectivity 173William Callison11 Diaspora and Migration 191Ghassan Hage12 Community, Collectivity, Affinities 205Miranda Joseph13 Feminism 223Rosemary Hennessy14 Gender and Queer Theory 243Amber Jamilla Musser15 Social Divisions and Hierarchies 255Randy Martin16 Work and Precarity 269Jason ReadSection B: Being and Knowing 28317 Religion and Secularism 287Jerilyn Sambrooke18 Affect 301Marija Cetinić and Jeff Diamanti19 Indigenous Epistemes 313Rauna Kuokkanen20 The Everyday, Taste, Class 327Ben Highmore21 Disability Studies 339Anna Mollow22 Unsound 357Veit Erlmann23 Screen Life 371Toby Miller24 Digital and New Media 387Wendy Hui Kyong Chun25 Science and Technology 403Priscilla WaldSection C: Structures of Agency and Belonging 41926 Circulation 423Will Straw27 Cultural Production 435Sarah Brouillette28 Decolonization 449Jennifer Wenzel29 Race and Ethnicity 465Min Hyoung Song30 Humanism 477Nina Power31 Nature 489Stephanie LeMenager32 Scale 503Justin Sully33 Narrative 517Marie‐Laure RyanIndex 531