The ethics of cultural studies. (©2005)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Joanna Zylinska.
• Other Names: Zylinska, Joanna, 1971-
• Contents: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 A User''s Guide to Culture, Ethics and Politics; Welcome to the culture club; Description v normativity; Performativity; Deconstruction; Identity; ''Turn to Levinas''; Levinas''s ethics; Ethics and responsibility; Power struggle; Decision; Articulation; Antagonism in the plural; Ethics before politics; 2 Ethics and Cultural Studies; Idle students and tabloid princesses; Cultural studies and ethics; The cultural studies of difference; What is cultural studies?; Cultural studies as a promise; 3 Ethics and ''Moral Panics''; Guns, youths and hip-hop. Cultural studies and ''moral panics''Beware the folk devils!; Cultural studies'' ethical blind spot; Policing the (racial) crisis; Cultural studies before the law; Hegemony and ethical strategy; Permanent vigilance; A postscript; 4 Ethics, Violence and the Media; Introduction; The sublime; The secular sacred; Mastering the sublime; Whose trauma is it anyway?; Good and bad violence; An (other) ethics of the sublime; Responsibility and the gift of death; 5 Ethics and the Body; The people you never see; The universal acts and the biopolitics of immigration; Performativity of the public sphere. On the state''s thresholdThe politics of blindness; An ethics of bodies that matter; 6 Ethics and National Identity; The nation at war (with itself); ''They''re all anti-Semitic there''; Unveiling the truth; Is there such a thing as collective responsibility?; National memory and national forgetting; Narcissism, alterity and national identity; 7 Ethics and Technology; Prosthetics and ethics; Welcoming the alien; Ethical confusion and ''good scandal''; ''I is an other''; ''The information is the prosthesis''; ''A species for which we do not yet have a name''; 8 Bioethics and cyberfeminism. (Yet more) questions of cultural identitySoftening the cyborg; Bioethics between corporal and corporate obligations; Do soft cyborgs have bodies?; Mice experiments; A modest proposal for feminist cyberbioethics; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Continuum
• Publication Date: 2005
• Copyright Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 176 pages)
• Subjects: 174/.9306; Culture -- Study and teaching -- Moral and ethical aspects; Social ethics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics; Social ethics; Kulturwissenschaften; Wissenschaftsethik; Culturele studies; Ethiek; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441101969; 1441101969; 1283202255; 9781283202251
• Related ISBNs: 082647523X; 9780826475237; 0826475248; 9780826475244
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-169) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.