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Lost in Transduction: From Law and Code’s Intra-actions to the Right to Explanation in the European Data Protection Regulations

Recent algorithmic technologies have challenged law’s anthropocentric assumptions. In this article, we develop a set of theoretical tools drawn from new materialisms and the philosophy of information ... , Andrea. 2015 . Epistemology and political philosophy in Gilbert Simondon. Individuation, technics, social systems . Dordrecht, NL: Springer. Bayamlıoğlu , Emre. 2022 . The right to contest automated

ROUNDTABLE: Internationalization: Meanings and practices of French-speaking political scientists

This roundtable collection of articles explores the diversity and variety of French-speaking political scientist practices and meanings of internationalization in Francophone Belgium, Canada

Robert Cover as a Radical Democrat

The political philosophy of radical democracy has made innumerable invaluable contributions to theories of democracy. However, while radical democrats tend to focus on the political, a cogent and ... political philosophy of myths used to narrativise and self-justify the existence of a political community, which there are good reasons to believe extends to its legal institutions. But the distinctive

Robert Elgie and the nature of political science

I argue that Robert Elgie's late political leadership duology makes a remarkable contribution to the debate on political science methodology and the philosophy of social science. It demonstrates that ... , or even any, of it. This is not something I would have dared to attempt as a contribution to a festschrift! Robert Elgie; Methodology; Philosophy of Social Science; Comparative Politics; Political

Ethics: An Impossible Politics—Perversion, Law and Racial Difference

This paper takes the removal of the Colston statue in Bristol in the summer of 2020 and the accompanying Black Lives Matter protest as a political setting which can help us explore the radical ... -political transformation, his last work, I argue, moves towards radical even revolutionary transformations. Here I propose to read actions taken by the contemporary racial justice groups as an attempt to

Introduction to the special issue does local context matter? The re-localization of politics during municipal elections in three French cities

disconnection between the local and national political scenes. The aim of this special issue is to contribute to the understanding of this phenomenon by drawing on the achievements of electoral socio-geography ... addition to analyses focused on the political offer, in particular partisan strategies, this introduction argues in favor of taking greater account of certain urban and socio-demographic dynamics, in order

Becoming political while avoiding politics: a study of Yellow Vests first-timers

argue that, paradoxically enough, avoiding politics was a condition of possibility for their entry and continuation in the mobilisation. Moreover, they became political insofar as they acquired a sense of ... very unequal, we urge to study the avoidance of institutional politics as political tactics that might, under certain circumstances, foster politicisation among the most disenfranchised groups

Legal Survivals and the Resilience of Juridical Form

Gearey . 2005 . Critical Jurisprudence: The Political Philosophy of Justice . Hart: Oxford-Portland. Duve , Thomas. 2014 . German Legal History: National Traditions and Transnational Perspectives . Max ... study can illuminate our understanding of the juridical phenomenon more generally and the resilience of legal forms in particular. If, following Agamben (2002 , p. 50), we concede that ‘philosophy can

Our Legal Borders: Interrelated Constructions of Individual and Political Bodies

In liberal democracies that were British colonies, law constructs the linkages and distinctions between individual and political bodies. Legality re-iterates the form of an ancient construct called ... . Additionally, in times of mass insecurity or crisis, we might believe that we need to fix our (personal or political) borders and construct them in more solid ways. However, because other modalities of power

Habermas, Popular Sovereignty, and the Legitimacy of Law

theoretical concept . European Journal of Social Theory 24 ( 4 ): 485 - 506 . Olson , Kevin. 2009 . Reflexive democracy as popular sovereignty . In New Waves in Political Philosophy, ed. Boudewijn de Bruin and ... of Jürgen Habermas . Philosophy and Social Criticism 40 ( 1 ): 13 - 18 . Scheuerman , William E. 2012 . Good-bye to radical reformism? Political Theory 40 ( 6 ): 830 - 838 . Shoikhedbrod , I. 2021

Human Rights Penality and Violence Against Women: The Coloniality of Disembodied Justice

generalisable. Abstraction entails a cognitive 9 Liberalism is widely regarded as the dominant political philosophy in the international legal order (Kapur 2018; Douzinas 2014; Sattar 2019) . process by which ... Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism . Abingdon, Oxford and New York: Routledge-Cavendish. Douzinas , Costas. 2014 . 'Human Rights and the Paradoxes of Liberalism . ' openDemocracy. August 7 , 2014 . https

Introduction to the roundtable: a critical actor in the development of international political science

section came out of a memorial roundtable held at the American Political Science Association Meetings in Seattle in 2021, 2 years after Robert Elgie's untimely passing in the summer of 2019. Given the ... significant and long-lasting contributions Robert made to the discipline of political science over his 28-year career in both scholarship and institution-building, many of us who had worked with him over the

Judicial Decision-Making, Ideology and the Political: Towards an Agonistic Theory of Adjudication

juridical, and specifically, judicial decision-making. Mouffe’s concept of the political as the dimension of inherent and unalienable conflicts (antagonisms) which, nonetheless, need to be tamed for a ... can hardly be a valid critique of political theory or political philosophy, as opposed to sociology of politics or empirically oriented political science. The former are reflections on the political

Contextualism vs Non-Contextualism in Political Philosophy A Contribution to the Debate on Criticism in the Political Sciences

The author’s aim is to analyse the problem of criticism in the context of political sciences, in particular in the context of political philosophy. The issue is considered in the light of two basic ... departure for critical attitudes in political philosophy.. political philosophy; political science; criticism; historism; contextualism; presentism - Piotr Świercz vidual propositions that have been

Political information consumption and electoral turnout during COVID: the case of the 2020 municipal elections

The effects on political participation of the consumption of political information from traditional and digital media are widely addressed in the literature. However, what happens in times of ... ), Université Catholique de Lille , Lille , France 3 European School of Political and Social Sciences (ESPOL), Université Catholique de Lille , 60 boulevard Vauban-CS 4010, 59016 Lille Cedex , France The

For I Do Not Know How to Act: Tadeusz Kantor and the Reality of Theatre

makeshift shelter … a place of intimacy.’ (ibid., p. 217). The scene, for Hirvonen, is, in this sense, an originary political space (ibid., p. 224). I find that philosophy has been intrigued by theatre ... : an esoteric disciplinary programme. Hirvonen follows a philosophical path charted by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jacques Lacan whereby philosophy is set before the tragic.9 In which of the two senses

Challenging the Rule of Law Universalism: Why Marxist Legal Thought Still Matters

The primary aim of this article is to present the rule of law universalism as a relevant theoretical and socio-political issue that critical legal thought needs to contend with. In order to do so ... universalism, mainly regarding historical embeddedness and socio-political dependency of the rule of law. The transitional context illustrates the tension between the rule of law treated as a generalized

The Courtroom as an Arena of Ideological and Political Confrontation: The Chicago Eight Conspiracy Trial

; Chicago 1968 protests; Political trials; Performativity; Rupture; Utopia in the courtroom - society comes tumbling down around us; our role is to survive.  We have to learn how to defend ourselves, given ... university campuses, the Chicago Conspiracy Trial brought the ideological and political confrontation of the 1960s into the courtroom. Staged between September 1969 and February 1970 in the district courthouse

Toward a more ‘sovereign’ Europe? Domestic, bilateral, and European factors to explain France’s (growing) influence on EU politics, 2017–2022

In recent years, both inside and outside France, scholars and policymakers have emphasized a small and declining French influence on European politics and the political direction of the European ... and ideas. We argue that this renewed French clout is due to the interplay of factors located at different levels of government: a centralized political system and careful preparation of policy

From Paratexts to Print Machinery

philosophical form of a universal proposition, Kant’s (1996b) account of enlightenment was deeply political. To valorise the use of one’s own reason as an emancipatory practice was to oppose the Prussian King ... of the political realities in which enlightenment was practised. However, as Schmidt (2011) has rightly pointed out, such a treatment of Kant’s essay ironically suppressed those passages and