Adrian Daub

Adrian Daub

Adrian Daub is professor of comparative literature and German studies at Stanford University, where he directs the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. His next two books are The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming) and What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, forthcoming).


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A Man in Brussels

Storytelling about the European Union tends to be done by those aggressively disinterested in its survival. Isn’t that a problem?

“Westworld” and the Dawn of Baroque TV

Part of the thrill of our New Golden Age of Television has been discovering incredible shows in places one wouldn’t have previously thought to look: streaming services, formerly niche channels, YouTube. With so many options, it’s a bit exhausting when a show arrives demanding to be recognized as the next big thing. Westworld—the 1973 sci-fi […]