Here Keenan, a theorist working primarily on human rights discourse and the relationship between war and the media, outlines a politically committed ethics of ‘responsibility.’ On how these considerations relate to the traditional Left project and post-1989 conditions, see in particular ‘The Point Is to (Ex)Change It: Reading ‘Capital,’ Rhetorically’ and the discussion of Foucault’s concept of non-governmental politics in ‘The ‘Paradox’ of Knowledge and Power: Foucault on the Bias.’