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The common agreement among the essays in this collection and our own work as conveners and editors is that for all its despoiled and tiresome qualities, the thing about trauma as concept or âtheoryâ is that it has no substitute; nothing else stands by to replace the term or to focus our attention as it does.1 The time and space of the battlefield are everywhere and nowhere, and the fractal time of trauma exceeds notions that memory is contiguous or simple. In its century-old belief in the psychical roots of accidental or unjust suffering lies something that can help us to think again about endless warfare, predatory capitalisms, political malice, and unremitting, unmourned, and consequently, perhaps, otherwise incomprehensible violence. Yet what does the term trauma contribute to a political language? This question haunts the contributions to this thematic issue in substantially dif- doi 10.1215/10679847-2007-009 Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press ferent ways. That being the case, we have structured âWar Capital Traumaâ to clarify the stakes of the trauma concept. Some readers may feel discomfort about the propriety of the trauma concept, given its European lineage, in discussions of the damage endured in places that are not European
positions asia critique – Duke University Press
Published: Mar 1, 2008
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