Being Social: Ontology, Law, Politics

Being Social: Ontology, Law, Politics

We are pleased to announce that Being Social: Ontology, Law, Politics, edited by Tara Mulqueen and Daniel Matthews, and published by COUNTERPRESS, is now available. Being Social brings together leading and emerging scholars on the question of sociality in...
Live blog: Warwick Summit on Protest

Live blog: Warwick Summit on Protest

We’ll be liveblogging the Warwick Summit on Protest today from 16:00 UK time. The Summit was proposed by Warwick Law School’s Centre for Human Rights in response to events on campus last term which saw the University summoning the police to a Free...
For fragments, and not debts, we are

For fragments, and not debts, we are

It may be the case that one could note the peculiar appearance of the thinking minister. A thinking minister is not suddenly a liberated or a good minister, but at least a minister who thinks and does not just administer or govern; thus maintaining for a number of...
The Greek Debt ‘Confidence Trick’

The Greek Debt ‘Confidence Trick’

  As William Shakespeare said in Much Ado About Nothing, “Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.” As so it seems appropriate to cast our ‘eye’ upon the discourses that have defined the current Greek financial crisis from both the left and the...
To Question Law, Without  Condition

To Question Law, Without Condition

Take your time but be quick about it, because you do not know what awaits you (Jacques Derrida).1Jacques Derrida, Without Alibi (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002), 237. The heady days of Occupy Central have passed. The 79 day occupation of the centre of Hong...