Thomas Keenan teaches literary theory and human rights at Bard College. He is the author of Fables of Responsibility: Aberrations and Predicaments in Ethics and Politics (Stanford University Press, 1997); co-editor, with Wendy Chun, of New Media, Old Media: A History of Theory Reader (Routledge, 2006); and co-author, with Eyal Weizman, of Mengele’s Skull (Sternberg Press, 2012).