Militarizing Critical Theory: Asymmetric Warfare and Culture

Current instrumentalities of war rely heavily for their concept and inspiration on poststructuralist thinkers, among several others. These appropriations act as a provocation for scholars in the humanities to think freshly, within the frame of intended and unintended complicities, about these legacies at the present juncture. This might immediately suggest something like the Heidegger and Paul de Man controversies of the past, but we believe the stakes and issues are far different and more difficult for left-liberal academics today.