The Future of Cultural Analysis: A Critical Inquiry

Murat Aydemir is associate professor in Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is the author of Images of Bliss: Ejaculation, Masculinity, Meaning (Minnesota University Press, 2004) and the (co)editor of Migratory Settings: Transnational Perspectives on Place (Brill, 2008) and Indiscretions: At the Intersection of Queer and Postcolonial Theory (Brill, 2011). From 2011 to 2021, he served as academic director of the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA). Noa Roei is assistant professor in Literary and Cultural Analysis at University of Amsterdam and a research fellow at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. She works in the field of visual culture, focusing on conflict, war, and nationalism, with a recent turn towards questions of spatiality, care, and infrastructure. Aylin Kuryel is assistant professor in Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam and documentary maker. Among the books she co-edited are Cultural Activism: Practices, Dilemmas and Possibilities (Rodopi, 2010) and Küresel Ayaklanmalar Ça.inda Direni. ve Estetik (Resistance and Aesthetics in the Age of Global Uprisings, Iletisim Press, 2015).