Books in Brief
The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global
Author: Adrian Daub
“In this incisive new work, Adrian Daub analyzes the global spread of cancel culture discourse as a moral panic, showing that, though its object is fuzzy, talk of cancel culture in global media has become a preoccupation of an embattled liberalism. There are plenty of conservative voices who gin up worries about cancel culture to advance their agendas. But more remarkable perhaps is that it is centrist, even left-leaning, media that have taken up the rallying cry and really defined the outlines of what cancel culture is supposed to be.”
Daub is the J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Humanities and professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. He is also the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research.
