Universität Bonn

Department of English, American and Celtic Studies

Dr. Florian Cord

Institutional Mailing Address

Department of English, American and Celtic Studies
English Literatures and Cultures

University of Bonn
Rabinstraße 8
53111 Bonn

Office Location
Room 2.023
Rabinstraße 8
53111 Bonn


Email
fcord@uni-bonn.de


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, conjunctural analysis, crisis theory, discourses and politics of the Anthropocene

Florian Cord
© Florian Cord

Academic Profile

since 2024      Lecturer in English Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bonn

2020 – 2024   Lecturer in British Cultural Studies at the TU Dresden

2019                Program manager for Common Purpose in Leipzig/Halle

2015 – 2019   Lecturer in British Cultural Studies at the University of Leipzig

2015                Lectureship in Anglo-American Cultural Studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg

2009 – 2015   Lecturer in British Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Würzburg

2014               PhD in British Cultural Studies from 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

  • Posthumanist Cultural Studies: Towards a Toolbox for the Capitalocene (second book project; expected completion in 2024)
  • Cultural Studies and the Nonhuman (Turn): Interventions in the Contact Zone (thematic journal issue)
  • Cultural Studies Laboratory: Mapping the Current Conjuncture
  • 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
  • General editor of Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power (https://coilsoftheserpent.org/)
  • Member of the DFG research network Complicity: Enfoldings and Unfoldings (https://www.complicity-enfoldings-and-unfoldings.com/)
  • Member of the advisory board of the book series Critical Futures (https://www.transcript-verlag.de/reihen/kulturwissenschaft/critical-futures/)

Monograph

 J.G. Ballard’s Politics: Late Capitalism, Power, and the Pataphysics of Resistance. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017.

Edited books and journal issues

 

Journal articles and book chapters

  • “Cyclonoplicity: Impurity Politics for the Anthropocene.” Forthcoming.
  •  “Articulating the Future: Critical Futures Studies and Cultural Studies.” Critical Futures. Ed. Moritz Ingwersen, Solvejg Nitzke, Regina Schober and Jens Temmen. Bielefeld: transcript, forthcoming.
  • “Soft Totalities: Conjunctural Analysis and/as Assemblage Analysis.” New Formations: A Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics, forthcoming.
  • “In Repair: The Reparative as Theoretical Mode and Structure of Feeling in Times of Crisis. An Outline.” SubStance 53.2 (2024): 3-20.
  • “‘Humanity Recedes like a Loathsome Dream’: Nick Land, Ahuman Becoming, and Cultural Studies.” Journal for the Study of British Cultures 30.2 (2023): 231-51.
  • “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’.” 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.” 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.” 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’.” 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.” 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.” 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

 
Translations (from German)

  • “Cultural Studies Now – Thinking ‘Conjuncturally’” (with Ronja Waldherr), workshop, Dresden, 2023
  • “Cultural Studies and the Nonhuman” (with Ariane de Waal), workshop, Leipzig, 2023
  • “Cultural Studies and the Nonhuman Turn”, workshop, Dresden, 2022
  • “Cultural Studies and the Challenge of the New Right”, workshop, Leipzig, 2017
  • “Kick-Off Symposium: Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power”, public symposium, Leipzig, 2016
  • “Wrestling with the Angels: Exploring Stuart Hall’s Theoretical Legacy” (with Marie Hologa and Gerold Sedlmayr), conference, Dortmund, 2016
  • “Dimensionen der Popkultur”, public lecture series, Würzburg, 2010