Cultural Studies, Immanent War, Everyday Life

IF 0.9 4区社会学 Q2 CULTURAL STUDIES

Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies Pub Date : 2002-02-01 DOI:10.1177/153270860200200105

J. Bratich

引用次数: 5

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

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文化研究，内在战争，日常生活

最近几天，美国的新战争;已经有了一个正式的名字:“无限正义行动”。在某种程度上，这个名字本身就是不公正的。我在这里想到了列维纳斯，他的正义观念是对他人无尽的责任，任何债务的偿还只会增加义务。从这个意义上说，9/ 11的恐怖是我们的。而不是我们的;同时，这个奇点需要被记住。因此，这种司法军事化是一种没有责任的无限反应。在另一个层面上，正是这种概念上的不公正让我们对这场新的战争有了一种感觉。因为这不是

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Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies Multiple-

CiteScore

1.40

自引率

16.70%

发文量

期刊介绍： 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.