CRITICAL LEGAL THINKING
LAW AND THE POLITICAL
CRITICAL LEGAL THINKING
LAW AND THE POLITICAL
From Hyper-Chaos to the Irreversible
My philosophical project of radical democracy stands on two foundational intertwined discoveries that offer a firm ontological grounding of power.[i] 1. The world is radically contingent but is simulated by a world that presents itself as necessary through potestas (power as domination) and Entelecheia (when becoming obeys an external finality). 2 Politics can only be grounded in democracy and democracy can only be grounded in Energeia (unqualified, anarchic, synergistic power). The point of this article is to show how both discoveries are necessarily grounded in what I consider the foremost radical philosophical creation of our times, perhaps of Modernity, Quentin Meillassoux’s Hyper-Chaos. Nevertheless, paradoxically, Hyper-Chaos concomitantly offers my project its primordial ontological mainstay: sheer contingency as the sole unfounded base of the world and thus of Energeia, and its...
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Badiou: Tunisia, Riots & Revolution
Today I’ll talk to you about the riots in Tunisia. We won’t leave the subject of this year’s seminar — What does “change the world” mean? – an expression whose ambiguous character I’ve already described to you. If by “riots” we mean the street actions of people who...
Regulating Intimacy (again): Sex Workers as Vixens and Victims
Get your money for nothing And your chicks for free (Dire Straits) My previous contribution on Assange and the Swedish sex scandal drew some ire from feminist bloggers who mostly raised Catherine MacKinnon’s domination politics to refute my arguments relating to...
Kettling and the Rule of Law
Lord Justice Bingham once described the Rule of Law as 'the cornerstone of a democratic society.' Although on the face of it this constitutional principle might be associated with the idea that law and order reign, the doctrine's deeper implications concern how power...
Beyond Barbarism: David Kato, Uganda, and the American Right
I, like many, am deeply saddened by the news of the violent death of David Kato, a prominent Ugandan LGBTI activist. David was murdered in his home on 26 January in a village near Kampala. Although the motives for his murder are not yet confirmed, it is highly...
Before the Law (School)
What is the role of legal education, what does it mean to learn the law? The law teacher’s first duty is to understand and teach the language of justice, the breath, spirit and equity that should move the body of law. A law without justice is dead letter, body without...
The Phantom of Liberty Always Comes with a Knife Between its Teeth
Shooting in the flesh is the high point of social oppression. All the stones torn from the pavement and thrown at the shields of cops or at the façades of commercial temples; all the flaming bottles that traced their orbits in the night sky; all the barricades erected...
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)...
Dreams of Arson & the Arson of Dreams: Surrealism in ‘68
In a society that has abolished every kind of adventure the only adventure that remains is to abolish that society. —Anonymous striker graffiti, Paris (May, 1968) …and this ol’ world ain’t got no back door. —The Marvelettes, “Destination: Anywhere” (1968) So many...
The (Surrealist) Platform of Prague – The Vessels Always Communicate
The current declaration, ratified by all of our friends, was drawn up in Prague by the members of the Surrealist Group in that city and those surrealists who had come from France, between 5 and 18 April 1968, to take part in a series of events organised around the...
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...
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