ABSTRACT
The historical evolution, philosophical roots, humanistic values, political functions, and cultural/symbolic performances of human rights can all be said to lie on the very plane of immanence, implying an unpredictable abundance that is constitutive of the human rights political project itself. Lawrence Grossberg insists on “proving” the political ethos of immanence in cultural studies through his own encounter at the centre for contemporary cultural studies at the University of Birmingham. Cultural studies wants to create an anti-reductivist sense of complexity in knowledge production and political assessment as an intellectual context for its very own development, upon which it situates itself and through which it inserts itself into the world. The trajectory of intellectual evolution of cultural studies, it turns out, has been spread out over the same period when the multiplying crises of human rights have become more and more severe and out of control.
