CRITICAL LEGAL THINKING
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CRITICAL LEGAL THINKING
LAW AND THE POLITICAL
Speed Limit: What does it mean to regulate AI?
Elena Esposito argues that artificial intelligence is misnamed and that a more accurate descriptor would be ‘artificial communication’.[1] Here, communication is closely connected to the idea of being informed: a communication is pertinent to the extent that it informs the addressee of something that is novel or not previously known to them. However, we need to be careful because Esposito, following the work of Luhmann, does not consider communication to involve the conveying of something ‘in the mind’ of the sender into the mind of the addressee. Rather, the addressee is akin to a system that, we might say, is triggered or irritated by a communication to produce a change of state in its own system. Such a change is information, closely aligning to Bateson’s definition of information as ‘the difference that makes a difference’.[2] Consequently, if AI produces a change of state in a human addressee then communication has taken...
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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...
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,...
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