Towards an Acoustic Jurisprudence

Towards an Acoustic Jurisprudence

In the same building in which Bob Dylan recorded much of his seminal album Blood on the Tracks, there is a room within a room within a room.[1] The outermost of these is lined with foot-thick concrete, the inner two have double walls of insulated steel. The central...
The Essence of Ecology: Uncanny Ipseities

The Essence of Ecology: Uncanny Ipseities

Full Title: Uncanny Ipseities: presencing beenness – worlding-rootedness/rooted worldliness – political differend : be-ginning-steering of the west as the be-coming-gliding of the east ** The main move of this paper is to conceive Heidegger as a thinker about the...
Constitutionalism & the Time of the Political

Constitutionalism & the Time of the Political

In his book The Idea of Public Law Martin Loughlin outlines three ‘orders of the political’ that underpin and orient public law. The first order begins with Carl Schmitt’s famous formulation of the distinction between friend and enemy. Loughlin contends that it is...
The Heart of the World – Sovereignty & its Ground

The Heart of the World – Sovereignty & its Ground

This text appears as part of the exhibition For Inclusion in the Syllabi curated by Five Story Projects at the Pigeon Wing gallery in London (Sept 15th – 30th). The exhibition also features work by: Am Nuden Da, Ana Balona de Oliveira, Thomas Bush, Angus...