CRITICAL LEGAL THINKING
LAW AND THE POLITICAL
CRITICAL LEGAL THINKING
LAW AND THE POLITICAL
On the relationship between trans politics and disability
In the aftermath of the decision in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers [2025] USCK 16, many disabled people sought to give practical solidarity to trans people. Disabled activists offered to share their RADAR keys with trans friends. Articles were published exploring the links between disabled and trans experience. “Being Trans is Disabling,” on the Disability Rights UK website described some of the commonalities, “One thing Disabled and Trans communities have in common is our creative solutions to medical survival outside the confines of a state that seems hell-bent on our suffering.” Also in spring 2024, the journal Transgender Studies Quarterly ran a special issue on trans-crip theory, an approach characterised by J. Logan Smilges and Slava Greenberg as “a dynamic framework designed to illuminate the fundamental entanglement of transness and disability across ontological and phenomenological registers”. The metaphor of...
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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...
Scattered Thoughts on Streets, Demands and Revolution
‘Demand the Impossible’ is documented as being one part of a slogan graffitied during the French student revolt of 1968. I got to know it via Peter Marshall’s Demanding the Impossible: A history of Anarchism (1993). Along with this fragmentary graffiti the song from...
Poems, Kettles and Monopolies
A short poem inspired by the student protests, mainly on the ‘kettling of kettling’ idea used by friends and supporters of injured protestor Alfie Meadows. They created something of a 'Russian doll' effect by surrounding the police at their headquarters at Scotland...
This boat was stopped
At least 28 Iranian and Iraqi asylum-seekers drowned yesterday within sight of the Australian territory they were aiming for. The media keeps emphasizing that there were "women and children" on board. If they were all men, would we not need to feel bad about it? is...
Biblioclasm and the Book Bloc
Biblioclasm: biblio- comb. form + Greek - klasmos breaking Born in Rome during the student protests of December 2010, and again in London’s demonstrations of that same month, the Book Bloc would not normally figure in a chronology of libricide. After all, no actual...
Geographies of the Kettle: Containment, Spectacle & Counter-Strategy
“Those who live by the spectacle will die by the spectacle.” Jean Baudrillard The last few weeks of student-led protests against the ideologically blunt and financially reckless Tory-Liberal Democrat cuts and the massively short-sighted, brutal and regressive cuts to...
Italian Protests: A Supplement to Rory
In Italy, apart from the more explicitly aggressive confrontations of yesterday, the student movement had already performed last month strategies of simultaneous occupation of key symbolical sites (Coliseum in Rome, the Tower in Pisa, The Mole in Turin and so on) not...
The Europe to come
Tizian – Rape of Europa 1562 Jürgen Habermas and Ulrich Beck enthused about the European model and prophesied its exportation to the world. Many were the successes of the Union, they claimed.Jürgen Habermas, The Divided West (Cambridge: Polity, 2006) 43; Ulrich...
A Note on Violence
There is a determined constituency within the new student movement who do not rule out the use of physical force in protest. The damage they incur is far from random vandalism. The courage they display in refusing to be intimidated by the increasingly brutal tactics of the police has garnered some recognition from others within the movement. Yet the issue remains controversial and potentially divisive.
The Violent Vocabulary of Policing
Those of us living in the so-called advanced democracies such as the United Kingdom often forget that Police is an integral part of coercive capacity of the state. Yet, what should make a democracy democratic is accountability of the state to the people. People...
Courage, comrades, a new world is about to be born!
The following is the recent response by Jean-Luc Nancy to the decision to shut down the French, Italian and Russian departments at the University at Albany, SUNY. It is a statement of general significance, lamenting the tendency everywhere to forsake humanities and...
A Face Decomposed
Within the alchemical legal doctrine of royal circles, the doubling of the heir to the throne’s body as the expression of the nation’s future health requires, as Ian Jack has noted, that the utmost composure be displayed.Thus mirroring ‘the king’s two bodies’:...
The Nomadic Hive Manifesto
The manifesto that came out of the “Arts Against Cuts” teach-in at the National Gallery in London on 9 December 2010
Charter 08
Charter 08 was written by China's Human Rights Defenders including Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo. A hundred years have passed since the writing of China’s first constitution. 2008 also marks the sixtieth anniversary of the promulgation of the Universal...
London Book Bloc
On this day, despite the protests, the plan to raise the cap on tuition was carried by 323 votes to 302. Like the Wu Ming in Italy, would anyone like to have a go at summarising a message of protest from the names of the books on their shields? Feel free to use the...
The Life and Death of the University
In the last few weeks, much emphasis has been placed on the impact that the unprecedented increase in tuition fees will have on the life of the university and, beyond the university’s boundaries, on the life of future students themselves. But oddly it seems that the...
The state of kettling
Kettling is a terrible tactic both for those caught between the police lines, and for those who fear such a fate. But perhaps rather than attempting to frustrate the strategy through legal means, our plan of action should be to show its incapacity to work on the streets.
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