Backdoor Broadcasting have just put up the podcast of last wednesday’s event at Birkbeck on the recent events in Greece and Spain. The abstract reads: When Stephane Hessel wrote in Time for Outrage!that indignation with injustice should turn to ‘a peaceful...
The stream proposes to engage with the contemporary possibilities of resistance to everything that is or that can be associated with sovereignty, power or domination (sovereign power, sovereign practices, sovereign language, sovereign thought and the law of the...
Critical Legal Conference 2011 The relevance of time and temporality seems particularly pertinent for critical legal scholars interested in themes of memory, trauma, forgiveness, and post/colonialism. However, time also plays an important role in cases that are not...
Critical Legal Conference 2011 From a classical perspective, early societies worshipped divinities, pursued grand narratives and ideas, then moved on to fetishising machines and this stage has arguably been succeeded by the fetishisation of man by the machine. In this...
Critical Legal Conference 2011 Derrida ends Specters of Marx with an injunction for the ‘scholar’ of the future: let the ghost speak, let the revenant return, learn how to live by keeping up company with the specter. In the ‘age of technology’...
Critical Legal Conference 2011 Most law degree courses start with one or more introductory course to law. It is within these courses that students get acquainted with law, where it comes from, what it does and how a legal system is organised and structured. Usually,...
