“The Residue of the National: Conditions of Production and the Transatlantic Divide,” in Christof Decker and Astrid Böger, Transnational Mediations (Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, forthcoming) (original) (raw)

For many, the battle lines of the transatlantic culture war seem clearly drawn: on one side, Team America starring Miley Cyrus, the latest Hollywood blockbuster, Mad Men, Google and Facebook joining forces to conquer the European imaginary; on the other side, Europe, trying to leverage its considerable talents into something resembling a team, while divided among nations, languages and cultural hierarchies-split between supporting cultural legacies and creating an ongoing public culture-and torn over the substance of cultural identity in an era of mobile and multicultural identities.