VOLUME 6(3) • 2018
TERROR(OLOGY) IN THE TIME OF “COSMOPOLITANISM”
ABSTRACT. The time of this Special Issue is, amongst other things, the time of a world-understanding that includes the social imaginary of “cosmopolitanism accomplished”. In this essay, such cosmopolitanism is placed into quote-marks and used as the temporal setting within which the discourse on ter..
A COSMOPOLITANISM OF FEAR: THE GLOBAL SIGNIFICANCE OF TERRORISM AFTER THE 9/11
ABSTRACT. In this article, I propose a characterization of cosmopolitanism as a common concern against the global threat of post 9/11. I call it the ‘cosmopolitanism of fear’, referring to the idea that people in both affluent and non affluent societies share the same need for safety and public secu..
A DISSENTIC SPACE FOR THE COSMOPOLITAN AND THE TERRORIST
ABSTRACT. In response to terrorism and the terrorist, the cosmopolitan theorist makes claims towards abstract accounts of humanity and the rule of law. The terrorist in both mainstream and cosmopolitan responses is generally understood as barbaric and lacking the insight to comprehend the brutality ..
POST-PRODUCTIVIST EDUCATION AND THE CHALLENGE OF EXTREME IDENTITIES
ABSTRACT. The current educational system’s ideological sustainability can no longer be comfortably assumed. Part of this unsustainability has to do with a now-inherent systemic instability occasioned by the rise of economically untethered identities. Unanchored from their erstwhile vocational enconc..
TERROR AND THE ROLE OF EDUCATION: A KANTIAN RESPONSE TO A MILITANT UTOPIAN CRITIQUE OF THE PREVAILING CULTURE OF POLITICS
ABSTRACT. Henry Giroux, one of the more prominent representatives of critical pedagogy, argues against what he calls the neoliberal culture of politics, which he thinks is detrimental for people and their possibilities to grow as human beings in education and elsewhere. He wants to replace it with w..
A MORAL VACUUM
It seems his treatment got a little rough.Do what you like with him, their orders said,Since the worst you can do’s not bad enough,But don’t forget: more use alive than dead. And so his minders did the usual stuff,Took their complete immunity as read,Then made the most of this great chance to duffH..