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The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global

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Adrian Daub
Read by:
Eric Burgher
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May 27, 2025
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8 hours 49 minutes
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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.



From French crusades against 'le wokisme' via British fables of the 'loony left' to a German obsession with campus anecdotes to a global revolt against 'gender studies': countries the world over have developed culture war narratives in conflict with the US, and, above all, its universities—narratives that they themselves borrowed from the US.



Who exactly is afraid of cancel culture? To trace how various global publics have been so quickly convinced that cancel culture exists and that it poses an existential problem, Daub compares the cancel culture panic to moral panics past, investigating the powerful hold that the idea of 'being cancelled' has on people around the world.
The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global

The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global

Author: Adrian Daub
Read by: Eric Burgher
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