Adrian Daub is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, where he serves as the Faculty Director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. He is the author of What Tech Calls Thinking (2020) and writes for numerous US and European newspapers and magazines.
Introduction: Exporting a Moral Panic
1. What We Talk About When We Talk About Cancel Culture
2. Word Histories
3. The Imagined Campus
4. The Neoconservative View
5. The Will to Melodrama
6. The Techniques of a Panic: Anecdote, Subscription, Essayism
7. Cosmopolitan Provincialism: How Cancel Culture Gets Imported
8. Cancel Culture Adaptation
Conclusion: Liberalism and Illiberalism
Translation of: Cancel Culture Transfer: wie eine moralische Panik die Welt erfasst. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2022.