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Contents & Introduction, Law Text Culture, volume 26

; vital in the twin senses of crucial and full of life. We wanted to find out more from colleagues working in disciplines as diverse as history, cultural studies, critical theory, law, and philosophy. We ... how we make sense of the world; in the political, legal, and social challenges of the world we live in. What metaphors frame our thinking and to what ends? The answers that emerged orbit around a series

Antigones of contemporary theatre: capturing problems of today’s civil disobedience in a theatre play

characters can take on a role of an Antigone. This is possible, because Antigone’s political power lies in her role as a dissident who challenges injustices perpetuated in the name of the law. In this article ... Trump and Trumpism’ Global Policy Journal 31: 1-22 Hegel GWF and Dyde SW 1896 Hegel’s Philosophy of Right G. Bell London Honneth A, McCarthy T, Offe C and Wellmer A eds 1992 Cultural-Political

Political identification and the differend

essential problem of the political (Lacoue~Labarthe 1989:300)? ... . Philosophy, Politics Ed C Fynsk Harvard University Press Cambridge Mass Lyotard ]-F 1983 Le difflrend Minuit Paris -1989a 'Heidegger and 'the jews': A conference in Vienna and Freiburg' in Political Writings

Terror: the danger of legal theatre

refers to the roots of ancient Greek theatre (see eg Gaakeer 2019) and its fundamentally political meaning. Thus, it may seem that this play is an answer to every law and theatre scholar’s prayer for a ... its fundamentally political meaning. One could presume that such cooperation with the audience was one of the author’s most important aims, based on his keeping track of results of audience opinions.2

A Rhetorical Matter of Life and Law: The Speculative Futures of (Bio)political Reproduction

which power coheres and materializes—making life law’s matter, an effect that is slyly taken up as legal ‘cause’. I offer as case studies readings of two incommensurable texts: Milan Kundera’s political ... Reproduction, Law Text Culture (Bio)political Reproduction Stuart J. Murray 0 1 0 Carleton University , Canada 1 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of

'Sakaarson the World Breaker': violence and différance in the political and legal theory of Marvel's sovereign

political and legal theory. ... basis for his political philosophy in this passage, for it highlights the fear of death which drives men’s actions. They seek to avoid ‘that miserable condition of war, which is necessarily consequent to

Metaphor, Marx, Agamben and International Law: The Jamaican Quashee/ Quasheeba, the Necessity of Labour, and the Subjectivity of Emancipated Slaves

availed to them by society in order for them to achieve their potential (Ross 2019: 119-120). The contemporary bifurcation of rights into (more or less right wing) civil and political rights enshrined in ... the International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) on the one hand, and (more or less left wing) economic social and cultural rights enshrined in the International Covenant for Economic

The Life and Death of a Protest Anthem at the Frontier of a New Cold War

National Security Law that has changed the political landscape of Hong Kong. Soon after the social movement erupted, the song Glory to Hong Kong gained huge popularity and came to be known unofficially as ... live performances in light of the evolving socio-political situation at the time. The analysis suggests that certain renditions of the song expressed not only political defiance but also a budding

From Ovid to COVID

limits on civil society. All these underlying socio-political aspects of the neoliberal social contract were brought into sharp relief. Yet a crisis is not an epilogue but a moment of decision. It may be ... foreign bodies; two ways, in fact, of understanding processes of colonisation, be they corporeal or political. For, like colonialism itself, infections operate in different ways. Bacteria treat cellular

Distracting the masses: Art, local government and freedom of political speech in Australia

Visual images in the form of politically explicit street art can evoke passionate responses. In the arena of political culture these responses can be educative or vilificatory, constructive or

‘Pathology without Pathos’: Transvaluating Blackness and Metaphors of Disease

materialise pain, vitality, and enjoyment (Hartman 1997: 17-32), and I extend these implications to how epidemiology and the philosophy of causation remand blackness to the cause of its own pathologies ... race have been entwined in the definition of normalcy and deviance’ (1987: 29).3 If, as Hammonds continues, ‘The power to define disease and normality makes AIDS a political issue’, then ‘how we think

Caveat Spectator: Juridical, Political and Ontological False Witnessing in CMI (A Certain Maritime Incident)

theories of witnessing?’ In answering this question, I argue that CMI illuminates or suggests not one but three forms of false witnessing, which I term juridical, political and ontological. Beyond offering a

The Corporate Monster Metaphor

Switzerland: 83–112 Naffine N 2009 Law’s Meaning of Life: Philosophy, Religion, Darwin and the Legal Person Hart Oxford Neocleous M 2003 ‘The political economy of the dead: Marx’s vampires’ History of ... Professor of the Faculty of Law, University Technology Sydney. The research for this article was funded by an Australian Research Council Grant: Rethinking Institutional Culpability: Criminal Law, Philosophy

What have our homes become? Metaphor and metamorphosis in the pandemic lockdown

, D with Honig, B 2015 ' Ordinary Emergences in Democratic Theory: An Interview with Bonnie Honig' Philosophy Today 59 /4: 699 - 710 Schmitt C 2005 Political Theology : Four Chapters on the Concept of ... uses, have challenged existing or assumed conceptualisations. A host of senses given to ‘home’ by philosophers, artists and political theorists writing in the wake of the pandemic, invite us to ponder

The law of law

Philosophy or law? Cause or effect? Does Philosophy name the laws through which things become known or are deemed as true, or must Philosophy itself be compelled by a law; guarded by an order that ... '? Philosophy? Another law? An infinite regress in the orders of Philosophy and law? ... Can we ever hope to arrive at an absolute origin in this schema, from which knowledge or truth may begin? Or have we

Competing Notions of Law in American Civil Religion

that express for most Americans the nexus of the political order to the divine reality. According to Robert Bellah, who stimulated much of the discussion about civil religion with his seminal essay in ... religion. While it remains for some a viable political theory and moral philosophy, it is discussed here only to show how its assault upon natural law led to the enshrinement of a political philosophy in

Measuring justice: notes on fish, Foucault, and the law

reception of classical Greek rhetoric and philosophy (Shankman 1994, Mailloux 1995, Zuckert 1996). In the following remarks, I suggest how Michel Foucault's genealogical work is both derived from and employed ... history (about the law). Specifically, I look at Foucault's genealogy of the will to truth in ancient Greek philosophy and legal practices and relate it to Stanley Fish's theoretical claims about the

The Labouring Undead: Zombification as a Metaphor of Contemporary Crisis-Management

apt to grasp the immanent aesthetics of political economy. Therefore, I propose to repurpose Hans Blumenberg’s notion that a metaphorological analysis does not just mark a subsidiary or preliminary ... , they argue that political economy has always been concerned with the “representation of invisibilities,” (ibid 36) that is, the comprehensibility of a totality in permanent flux that supersedes

Gnostics of the North, or Music To Recolonize Your Anxious Capitalist Dreams By

kidnapping is the most notorious entry in Carlos’s résumé of political violence. And the geopolitical complexities of the event, its motivations, and its ramifications are far-reaching and profound. ... neoliberals have actually done is to build a political economy whose primary responsibility is to encase the market in a shell, protecting it from outside influences such as governments, electorates, indeed

‘We Say Sorry’: Apology, the Law and Theatricality

When ideas about theatre are used to describe political events, the theatrical is usually made to stand for that which is undesirable, inauthentic and empty about political life: we might describe a ... ’ or ‘political drama’ to denounce the way selfreferential questions about character or personal intrigue have obscured the ‘real’ issues of politics. In contrast to this dismissive usage, I would like