Matthews, Daniel and Veitch, Scott (2016) The limits of critique and the forces of law. Law and Critique, 27 (3). pp. 349-361. doi:10.1007/s10978-016-9192-1 ISSN 0957-8536.

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Abstract

Three recent publications evidence a growing interest in critical jurisprudence with materiality, technology, affect and atmosphere. These approaches pose fundamental challenges to existing traditions within legal critique, spurning a focus on the ideology of legal reasoning and exploring instead the unique practices through which the law binds subjects through material, affective and atmospheric manipulations. Through either Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos’s ‘lawscape’ or Kyle McGee’s ‘jurimorphs’ these innovative theoretical projects pluralise the ‘forces’ which account for the law’s normativity, disavowing the notion that such forces can be reduced either to a transcendental form (like sovereignty) or to notions of structural or symbolic violence. These approaches address a ‘democratic deficit’ in legal philosophy that has generally excluded the realm of the material in its theorising and allows us to attend to the multiple forms that allow for the passage of law.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law
Journal or Publication Title:	Law and Critique
Publisher:	Springer
ISSN:	0957-8536
Official Date:	October 2016
Dates:	Date Event October 2016 Published 17 August 2016 Available
Volume:	27
Number:	3
Page Range:	pp. 349-361
DOI:	10.1007/s10978-016-9192-1
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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