We are immersed in crisis cultures. But not only.' Manganas's cartography of crisis cultures, as defined by a lack of meaningful events leading to the intensification of underlying tensions, represents a groundbreaking intervention in contemporary critical thought. A first-person, timely, experiential journey into the multilayered, complex temporality of the crises enveloping us.

Alfredo Martínez-Expósito, University of Melbourne, Australia

We are all living in crisis cultures argues Nicholas Manganas in this important and timely study. Manganas is interested in exploring what multiple crises do as the drivers of an ongoing phenomenon of intensification that has implications for individuals, the nation, and group identities under western modernity. Eschewing an approach that focuses on identifying a single crisis, defined in space and time, Manganas homes in on the ways that multiple crises emerge, overlap, cross-fertilise and reach a critical mass in a given society, in the process destabilizing notions of historical linearity and temporal certainty. The examination of crisis cultures, Manganas proposes, tells us a great deal about our current historical moment, hence the need for new critical and conceptual interpretations of that moment. This book merits a wide audience of critics and scholars working across a range of disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Paul Allatson, University of Technology Sydney, Australia