CRITICAL LEGAL THINKING
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LAW AND THE POLITICAL
Friendship, Labour, Attention: Thinking with Simone Weil
In his beautiful and powerful book, The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market Capture (2021), our friend, Emilios Christodoulidis, reads one of his – and our – favourite thinkers, Simone Weil, and says of her ‘precious contribution’ (for example, in her reading of the Iliad) that she shows us how: Attention inserts the distance between that which is understood as ‘pure momentum’, impacts as fact, and is lived as compulsion, and a reflexivity that endows life with grace. (Christodoulidis, 2021, 53) In this series of blogposts, a group of us – friends of Emilios who have often spoken with him, and together, about the work of Weil – return to it and think again, with Weil, about friendship, labour, and attention. Maksymilian Del Mar and Scott Veitch
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Societies of Control – Blacklisted
A quick suggestion of reading from here: In the report we aimed to provide a comprehensive review of the development and implementation of the ‘terrorism lists’ over the last decade and document the crisis of legitimacy that is currently facing. Since the inception of...
Where Even Liberal Politics Is Denied: The Case of Students in Malaysia
The recent case of the 'UKM Four' has triggered a new wave of public debate in Malaysia regarding the infamous Universities and University Colleges Act 1971 (UUCA, or AUKU in Malaysian). This piece of legislation – passed at the height of student (semi-)radicalism in...
The Negation of Modernity in Education Reform
On 24th October 2010 the Iranian state radio announced that new restrictions were imposed upon 12 social sciences that are considered to be based on Western intellectual currents and therefore incompatible with Islamic teachings. The list includes law, philosophy,...
Foucault, Anti-Humanism & Human Rights
Responding to recent engagements with the late work of French Philosopher Michel Foucault, I will argue that he does not submit to the ‘moral superiority’ of humanism and introduce a liberal humanist subject, as is often argued. Rather, Foucault’s late investigations...
Intimate Dissidence: Assange, Foucault and (Feminist) Rape Discourse
At Critical Legal Thinking, Narnia Bohler-Muller takes issue with the narrow legalism of the often ‘surreal’ commentaries on the Assange controversy. In amongst the denunciation and counter-denunciation she detects an undercurrent of disciplinary power. On this...
Four of the Remaining Thessaloniki 7 Appear in Court 14/01/2011
Further information at the London Thessaloniki Solidarity Group: http://www.salonikisolidarity.org.uk/
Regulating Intimacy – Assange, Foucault and Rape
Sweet dreams are made of this/Who am I to disagree?/I travel the world/And the seven seas/Everybody's looking for something. Some of them want to use you/Some of them want to get used by you/Some of them want to abuse you/Some of them want to be abused. (Eurythmics)...
The fake jump of the diver: Greece 11 Months on…
How fast does time run? A bit of a silly question, one might think. Surely time always runs at a steady pace – the ticking of a wall clock testifies to this, at every single second. The passage of days, weeks and months; pages flying one after the other off a...
The Statement of those interrupting the TV Newscast – Greece 2008
Our action is a response to the accumulated pressures that ravage our lives, and not simply an emotional outburst in the wake of the murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos by the Greek police. We are yet another spontaneous collective that forms part of the social...
We are here/We are Everywhere/We are an image from the future – Greece 2008
Initiative from the occupation of the Athens School of Economics & Business If I do not burn/If you do not burn/ If we do not burn/ How will darkness come to light? (Nazim Hikmet, “Like Kerem”) … Tomorrow dawns a day when nothing is certain. What could be more...
On the Greek revolt: Sailing away from the shores of normality
The three bullets fired by police special guard Epaminondas Korkoneas that killed 15 year old Alexis Grigoropoulos in cold blood in Athens on December 6th started a revolt that shattered two of the country's strongest linear political understandings. First, the...
Greece 2008
Following from Hara's post yesterday, we thought it might be a good idea to refresh our minds of some of the thinking behind and beyond the Dec 2008 Greek protests. We are republishing the statement of the occupied Athens School of Economics and Business and the...
Greece: A Short Voyage to the Land of Ourselves
The days of December 2008 seemed like a long, extremely long moment of rupture that shattered deeply and entirely our normality. We saw in front of us the possibility of things happening: thousands of people taking to the streets every day, writing hundreds of...
What we are reading… I have no enemies: My Final Statement | Liu Xiaobo
This text was read at the ceremony of the Nobel Peace Prize 2010, which was awarded to Liu Xiaobo 'for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China' "Twenty years on, the innocent souls of June Fourth are yet to rest in peace, and I, who had...
What we are reading… The Conception of Law | Antonio Gramsci
A conception of the Law which must be an essentially innovatory one is not to be found, integrally, in any pre-existing doctrine.... If every state tends to create and maintain a certain type of civilisation and of citizen (and hence of collective life and of...
What we are reading… Lapsus Judicii | Jean-Luc Nancy
Jurisdiction is the fact of saying right… (7) Hence, jus [i.e. right (ed)] is essentially articulated by a subject, but a subject that is less substance (this is rather what it loses, as Hegel said) than a potency or potentiality (an ability, will, desire, power,...
What we are reading… Wanderings through the Environments of Animals and Humans | Von Uexküll
(Streifzüge durch die Umwelten der Tieren und Menschen (1933), translated by Stephen Connelly [*]) Translator's note: In this short introduction von Uexküll outlines his view of passive consciousness and its relation to affective being which would prove so...
What we are reading… Hegel’s Daughters | Osvaldo Lamborghini
... todo va bien, hasta que llegan los lectores. Porque, cuando ellos llegan, entonces: entonces. Entonces todo iba bien. A eso se llega cuando los lectores llegan. Primero publicar, luego escribir (única manera de Evitar lectores) ... Las hijas de Hegel (1982) ***...
What we are reading… The People’s Constituent Power | Carl Schmitt
Of late, I have been working on a deconstruction of the people variously through Derrida and Ranciere. But it seems to me that one of the more important theorists of constituent power is Schmitt (along with Sieyes, Negri, Benjamin and Bataille). So, with the spectre...
To Finn Finn Finn-Again with Finnegans Wake: Julian Assange’s Radio Interview of 21st December 2010
The book ends (Fin), only to begin once more (again); James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake is the eternal return of its hero, Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker. This time around, the book may read differently, as it always does, but the basic plot remains the same. Whether we’re...
Towards a Radical Anti-Capitalist Schizophrenia?
Internet shopping has entered mainstream culture. Every major corporation in the world has a web site offering product information, interactive advertisements, and, increasingly, the ability to buy products on-line. Discount books, pizza delivery, stocks, and just...
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