"It is in light of this disconnect that I have come to see how justice and injustice are not opposites. Rather, these concepts are configured around fundamentally different temporalities, ethics, and affects. More often than not, injustice has a finalizable quality. Formulations of injustice are perfective actions: people suffer, are tortured, humiliated, wrongly convicted, dispossessed. It is true that our popular and analytic vocabulary has grown more sophisticated for capturing the particularly heinous qualities of structural injustice and the ongoing and repeated nature of wrongs. Nonetheless, the status of injustice as completed (if repeatable) remains nameable. Shared signs of injustice allow us to orient toward each other by way of a common object. In the process, we create an affectively charged experience of mutual recognition. We learn to recognize acts of injustice and we recognize other people recognizing them as well''.

Jessica R. Greenberg