{"title":"Cultural Studies, Immanent War, Everyday Life","authors":"J. Bratich","doi":"10.1177/153270860200200105","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In recent days, &dquo;America’s New War&dquo; has been given an official name: &dquo;Operation Infinite Justice.&dquo; On one level, this name is itself an injustice. I think of Levinas here, whose notion of justice is an inexhaustible responsibility to the other, where any repayment of debt only multiplies obligation. In this sense, the horrors of 9/ 11 are &dquo;ours&dquo; and &dquo;not ours&dquo; at the same time, and this singularity needs to be remembered. This militarization of justice, then, is an infinite response without responsibility. On another level, it is this very conceptual injustice that gives us a sense of what is to come in this new war. For this is not","PeriodicalId":46996,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies","volume":"44 1","pages":"20 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2002-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/153270860200200105","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"CULTURAL STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In recent days, &dquo;America’s New War&dquo; has been given an official name: &dquo;Operation Infinite Justice.&dquo; On one level, this name is itself an injustice. I think of Levinas here, whose notion of justice is an inexhaustible responsibility to the other, where any repayment of debt only multiplies obligation. In this sense, the horrors of 9/ 11 are &dquo;ours&dquo; and &dquo;not ours&dquo; at the same time, and this singularity needs to be remembered. This militarization of justice, then, is an infinite response without responsibility. On another level, it is this very conceptual injustice that gives us a sense of what is to come in this new war. For this is not
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The mandate for this interdisciplinary, international journal is to move methods talk in cultural studies to the forefront, into the regions of moral, ethical and political discourse. The commitment to imagine a more democratic society has been sa guiding feature of cultural studies from the very beginnnig. Contributors to this journal understand that the discourses of a critical, moral methodology are basic to any effort to re-engage the promise of the social sciences and the humanities for democracy in the 21st Century. We seek works that connect critical emanicipatory theories to new forms of social justice and democratic practice are encouraged.
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