The Ethics of Cultural StudiesEthical questions feature prominently on today's cultural andpolitical agendas. The Ethics of Cultural Studies presents an ethicalmanifesto for Cultural Studies, an exploration of its current ethicaland political concerns, and of its future challenges.The book is concerned with ethics in the material world, and drawson examples as diverse as cloning and genetics, asylum andimmigration, experiments in plastic surgery and in electronic anddigital art, memories of the Holocaust, September 11th, and mediarepresentations of violence and crime.The Ethics of Cultural Studies is a groundbreaking intervention thatsets the debate on ethics in cultural study, and offers an invaluablesource of ideas for students of contemporary culture. |
Contents
A Users Guide to Culture Ethics and Politics | 1 |
Description v normativity | 3 |
Performativity | 5 |
Deconstruction | 6 |
Identity | 9 |
Levinass ethics | 11 |
Ethics and responsibility | 14 |
Power struggle | 15 |
Good and bad violence | 74 |
Another ethics of the sublime | 76 |
Responsibility and the gift of death | 79 |
Ethics and the Body | 83 |
The universal acts and the biopolitics of immigration | 84 |
Performativity of the public sphere | 85 |
On the states threhshold | 89 |
The politics of blindness | 91 |
Decision | 16 |
Articulation | 19 |
Antagonism in the plural | 20 |
Ethics before politics | 21 |
Ethics and Cultural Studies | 26 |
Cultural studies and ethics | 28 |
The cultural studies of difference | 31 |
What is cultural studies? | 35 |
Cultural studies as a promise | 38 |
Ethics and Moral Panics | 41 |
Cultural studies and moral panics | 43 |
Beware the folk devils | 45 |
Cultural studies ethical blind spot | 48 |
Policing the racial crisis | 49 |
Cultural studies before the law | 51 |
Hegemony and ethical strategy | 54 |
Permanent vigilance | 59 |
A postscript | 61 |
Ethics Violence and the Media | 63 |
The sublime | 66 |
The secular sacred | 68 |
Mastering the sublime | 70 |
Whose trauma is it anyway? | 72 |
An ethics of bodies that matter | 94 |
Ethics and National Identity | 103 |
Theyre all antiSemitic there | 104 |
Unveiling the truth | 107 |
Is there such a thing as collective responsibility? | 110 |
National memory and national forgetting | 113 |
Narcissim alterity and national identity | 116 |
Ethics and Technology | 122 |
Welcoming the alien | 124 |
Ethical confusion and good scandal | 126 |
I is an other | 127 |
The information is the prosthesis | 131 |
A species for which we do not yet have a name | 135 |
BioEthics and Cyberfeminism | 138 |
Softening the cyborg | 139 |
Bioethics between corporal and corporate obligations | 141 |
Do soft cyborgs have bodies? | 143 |
Mice experiments | 150 |
A modest proposal for feminist cyberbioethics | 155 |
Bibliography | 159 |
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