Dr. Florian Cord
© Florian Cord
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
NameDr. Florian Cord
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Curriculum vitae
since 2020 Research assistant in British Cultural Studies at the TU Dresden
2019 Program manager for Common Purpose in Leipzig/Halle
2015 – 2019 Research assistant in British Cultural Studies at the University of Leipzig
2014 PhD (Title of thesis: “Catastrophic Strategies: Late Capitalism, Power, and the Pataphysics of Resistance in the Work of J.G. Ballard”)
2009 – 2015 Research assistant in British Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Würzburg
2007 – 2009 Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes scholarship
2005 – 2006 Assistant teacher in Strasbourg
2003 – 2009 M.A. in British Literature and Cultural Studies, American Studies and Philosophy at the University of Würzburg
2002 – 2003 Voluntary service with Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste in Philadelphia
Research interests
critical theory, popular and pop culture, media studies, theories and forms of subjectivity and identity, posthumanism and the ‘nonhuman turn’, theories and forms of power, contemporary anglophone fiction, conjunctural analysis, discourses and politics of the Anthropocene
Current research foci and projects
- Posthumanist Cultural Studies: Reconceptualizations for the Anthropocene
- Unruly Ontologies: Theory, Culture, and the Politics of Matter
- Low Theory
- Beyond Representation: Toward a New Analytics of Power
- Pop(ulist) Neoliberalism: Popular Culture and the Struggle for Hegemony
- Cultural Studies Laboratory: Mapping the Current Conjuncture
- Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power (general editor) – see https://coilsoftheserpent.org/
Publications
monograph
J.G. Ballard’s Politics: Late Capitalism, Power, and the Pataphysics of Resistance. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017.
edited books and journal issues
With Simon Schleusener. Control Societies II: Philosophy, Politics, Economy. Special Issue. Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power 6 (2020): https://coilsoftheserpent.org/category/issue-6-2020/
With Simon Schleusener. Control Societies I: Media, Culture, Technology. Special Issue. Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power 5 (2020): https://coilsoftheserpent.org/category/issue-5-2020/
With Gerold Sedlmayr. Culture, Power and Identity: The Theoretical Legacy of Stuart Hall. Special Issue. Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power 3 (2018): https://coilsoftheserpent.org/category/issue-3-2018/
The Challenge of the New Right. Special Issue. Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power 2 (2018): https://coilsoftheserpent.org/category/issue-2-2018/
Niedlich, Florian. Facetten der Popkultur: Über die ästhetische und politische Kraft des Populären. Bielefeld: transcript, 2012.
articles and book chapters
“Cyclonoplicity: Impurity Politics for the Anthropocene.” (in preparation).
“‘Humanity Recedes like a Loathsome Dream’: Nick Land, Ahuman Becoming, and Cultural Studies.” (in preparation).
“On Bringing the New World into Being: Theory, Ontology, Politics, and Action – An Interview with AK Thompson.” Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power 10 (2022): 95-117. https://coilsoftheserpent.org/2022/07/on-bringing-the-new-world-into-being/
“Critique, Repair, Escalation: Three Modes of Posthumanist Theorizing.” Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism 1.2 (2022): 1-23. https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/posthumanismstudies/article/view/3387
“Political Ontologies: Cultural Studies and the Nonhuman Turn.” Critical Habitations (2022): n.p. https://crithab.hypotheses.org/debate-2-the-posthuman-present/florian-cord-political-ontologies-cultural-studies-and-the-nonhuman-turn
“(Re-)Assembling Cultural Studies.” Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research 14.1 (2022): 1-26. https://doi.org/10.3384/cu.3986
“Posthumanist Cultural Studies: Taking the Nonhuman Seriously.” Open Cultural Studies 6 (2022): 25-37. https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2020-0138
“Towards an Insurgent Zombie Collective.” Alienocene: Journal of the First Outernational 9 (2021): 1-43. https://alienocene.com/2021/05/02/towards-an-insurgent-zombie-collective/
With Simon Schleusener. “Looking Backward at the Present, 2020-1990: Deleuze’s ‘Postscript on Control Societies’.” Control Societies II: Philosophy, Politics, Economy. Ed. Florian Cord and Simon Schleusener. Special Issue. Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power 6 (2020): 1-6. https://coilsoftheserpent.org/2020/11/looking-backward-at-the-present-2020-1990/
With Simon Schleusener. “Navigating the Coils of the Serpent.” Control Societies I: Media, Culture, Technology. Ed. Florian Cord and Simon Schleusener. Special Issue. Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power 5 (2020): 1-13. https://coilsoftheserpent.org/2020/07/navigating-the-coils-of-the-serpent/
“Dirty, Messy Business: Stuart Hall, Politics and the Political.” Culture, Power and Identity: The Theoretical Legacy of Stuart Hall. Ed. Florian Cord and Gerold Sedlmayr. Special Issue. Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power 3 (2018): 27-42. https://coilsoftheserpent.org/2018/12/dirty-messy-business/
With Gerold Sedlmayr. “Introduction: ‘Wrestling with the Angels’.” Culture, Power and Identity: The Theoretical Legacy of Stuart Hall. Ed. Florian Cord and Gerold Sedlmayr. Special Issue. Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power 3 (2018): 1-6. https://coilsoftheserpent.org/2018/12/introduction-2/
“Postdemocracy, the New Right and the Paralysis of the Left: A Commentary.” The Challenge of the New Right. Ed. Florian Cord. Special Issue. Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power 2 (2018): 35-39. https://coilsoftheserpent.org/2018/04/postdemocracy-the-new-right-and-the-paralysis-of-the-left/
“Introduction: The Challenge of the New Right.” The Challenge of the New Right. Ed. Florian Cord. Special Issue. Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power 2 (2018): 1-3. https://coilsoftheserpent.org/2018/04/introduction/
“Capital/Rebel City: London 2012 and the Struggle for Hegemony – Reflections on the Spatiality of Power.” London post-2010 in British Literature and Culture. Ed. Oliver von Knebel Doeberitz and Ralf Schneider. Leiden: Brill, 2017. 39-56.
Niedlich, Florian. “Finding the Right Kind of Attention: Dystopia and Transcendence in John Burnside’s Glister.” Twenty-First Century Fiction: What Happens Now. Ed. Siân Adiseshia and Rupert Hildyard. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 212-223.
---. “Pop Identities: Postmoderne Identität, Popkultur und Hanif Kureishis The Black Album.” Facetten der Popkultur: Über die ästhetische und politische Kraft des Populären. Ed. Florian Niedlich. Bielefeld: transcript, 2012. 51-65.
---. “Einleitung.” Facetten der Popkultur: Über die ästhetische und politische Kraft des Populären. Ed. Florian Niedlich. Bielefeld: transcript, 2012. 9-12.
---. “Spiegelstadium und Posthumanismus: Identität in Chris Cunninghams ‘All Is Full of Love’.” PhiN: Philologie im Netz 57 (2011): 15-33. http://web.fu-berlin.de/phin/phin57/p57t2.htm
---. “Virtual Identity? Postmoderne Identitätskonstruktionen und Virtualität in Musikclips von Stéphane Sednaoui und Michel Gondry.” Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 248.1 (2011): 1-21.
---. “‘The Times Are the Times of a Black Split Heart’: The ‘Post-War’ in Stevie Smith’s The Holiday.” Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 35.1 (2010): 61-74.
---. “Travel as Transgression: Claude McKay’s Banana Bottom, J.M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K, and Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album.” Local Natures, Global Responsibilities: Ecocritical Perspectives on the New English Literatures. ASNEL Papers 15. Ed. Laurenz Volkmann et al. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010. 337-350.
---. “‘No Time for the Innocent’: Evil, Subversion and Social Criticism in Joel Schumacher’s Falling Down, Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho and Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers.” Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 32.2 (2007): 221-240.
---. “‘Welcome to the free for all, the smash and grab, the freeloaders’ ball’: The Thatcher Years in Martin Amis’ Money: A Suicide Note and the Songs of New Model Army.” Erfurt Electronic Studies in English 12 (2006): n.p. http://webdoc.gwdg.de/edoc/ia/eese/artic26/nied/5_2006.html
Teaching
Conjunctural Analysis
Low Theory
The Normal
Subject Cultures
Cultural Studies: A Political Project
The Posthuman
Childhood
From Hoggart to Haraway: Key Thinkers of British Cultural Studies
Culture, Power and Identity
The Self and the Other: An Introduction to the Study of ‘Race’, Ethnicity, Whiteness
Subject Analysis: An Introduction to Theories of Subjectivation
Doing Cultural Studies: Stories of Cultural Artefacts
British Culture and Society
Stuart Hall: Cultural Studies and the New Left
Thinking the Postmodern
Identity: From Renaissance Self-Fashioning to the Postmodern Carnival
Romanticism
‘Extreme Metaphors for Extreme Situations’: The Work of J.G. Ballard
Recent Developments in Critical Theory
The British Novel after World War II
Desert Island Stories
Excess and Transgression in English Literature and Culture
The Empire Writes Back: Postcolonial Literature and Theory
Introduction to Cultural Studies
Das Verfassen wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten
Einführung in die englische Literaturwissenschaft
Translations (from German)
Avanessian, Armen and Anke Hennig. “Time-Complex Anxiety.” Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power 6 (2020): 129-37. <https://coilsoftheserpent.org/2020/11/time-complex-anxiety/>. (With Simon Schleusener.)
Demirovic, Alex. “Happiness without Power.” Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power 1 (2017): 1-18. <https://coilsoftheserpent.org/2017/06/happiness-without-power/>.
Martinsen, Franziska. “Powerlessness vs. Empowerment: Aporia of Human Rights and Political Subjectivation.” Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power 1 (2017): 30-41. <https://coilsoftheserpent.org/2017/06/powerlessnes-vs-empowerment/>.
Raunig, Gerald. “Cipher and Dividuality.” Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power 5 (2020): 175-81. <https://coilsoftheserpent.org/2020/07/cipher-and-dividuality/>. (With Simon Schleusener.)
Rölli, Marc. “Deleuze as a Theorist of Power.” Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power 1 (2017): 19-29. <https://coilsoftheserpent.org/2017/06/deleuze-as-a-theorist-of-power/>.
---. “Power Regimes of Control – Remarks on Their Neoliberal Context.” Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power 6 (2020): 33-38. <https://coilsoftheserpent.org/2020/11/power-regimes-of-control/>. (With Simon Schleusener.)
Vogl, Joseph. “The Financial Regime.” Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power 6 (2020): 55-60. <https://coilsoftheserpent.org/2020/11/the-financial-regime/>. (With Simon Schleusener.)