ABSTRACT
What is it like to study and teach cultural analysis at 1.5°C above preindustrial levels? Probably not much different, which is partly the point. Over the past decade, a planetary turn in critical theory has drawn attention to how climate change eludes human experience. This essay compares the respective research approaches of British cultural studies and the Netherlands’ cultural analysis and considers how they look after the planetary turn. The lesson of the planetary turn is as much about movement between analytic scales as it is an explosion of them, encouraging a form of cultural analysis that can attend to the rapidly shifting ways climate change does—and does not—figure as part of everyday experience.
