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I am grateful to the Guggenheim Foundation and the Princeton University Center for Human Values for funding the 2001–02 academic year when work on these essays began. I also thank Amy Jamgochian for her patient and thorough work on the manuscript and Benjamin Young and Stuart Murray for their helpful work. Wendy Brown and Joan Scott read many of these words, and their extraordinary persistence as vigorous interlocutors has been crucial to the completing of this work.

“Explanation and Exoneration” appeared first in Theory and Event, 5:4, and was reprinted in Social Text, no. 72. “Violence, Mourning, Politics” appeared first in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 4:1, and represents a reworked version of the Kessler Lecture delivered in December, 2001 at the Center of Lesbian and Gay Studies at CUNY. “Indefinite Detention” appeared first in a reduced form in Victor Goldberg, ed., It’s a Free Country: Personal Liberties after 9/11, New York: RMD Press, 2002; an earlier version appeared in part as “Guantanamo Limbo,” in the Nation, April 1, 2002. “The Charge of Anti-Semitism” was published in reduced form by the London Review of Books, August 21, 2003.