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What is Law’s rela­tion­ship to senses? In a sense, Law, the anaes­thetic par excel­lence, is con­stantly engaged in numb­ing the senses into common-​sense; manip­u­lat­ing, chan­nel­ling and con­trolling the sens­ible; insert­ing prop­er­ties and for­bid­ding con­tacts; dis­sim­u­lat­ing viol­ence, reg­u­lat­ing sounds and defin­ing taste. How­ever, senses are not static. Rather, they are shift­ing and elu­sive qual­it­ies, con­stantly reshuffled ...
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‘Spa­tial Justice: Rad­ical Found­a­tions’ was a work­shop held on the 19th of Novem­ber 2010 at
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Today Al Weiwei’s install­a­tion at Tate Mod­ern comes to an end. Unfor­tu­nately, the Chinese artist is cur­rently in the lime­light due to more press­ing reas­ons, since his arrest earlier this month, fol­lowed by the usual array of ‘solid’ evid­ences provided by the Chinese Gov­ern­ment, as well as some awk­ward silence. It is to him that ...
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In Italy, apart from the more expli­citly aggress­ive con­front­a­tions of yes­ter­day, the stu­dent move­ment had already per­formed last month strategies of sim­ul­tan­eous occu­pa­tion of key sym­bol­ical sites (Coli­seum in Rome, the Tower in Pisa, The Mole in Turin and so on) not only pro­du­cing sym­bol­ical oppos­i­tion to gov­ern­ment policies but also attract­ing praise for ...
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Where is justice? Or, more pre­cisely, what is the where of justice? For quite some time the ele­phant in the room of social science’s spa­tial turn – the for­mula was only men­tioned three times in the last cen­tury, as Soja noted – this ques­tion has gained sig­ni­fic­ant momentum in the last few years. Geo­graph­ers and (few) legal the­or­ists ...
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