2008 Issue
The “Real” in Resistance: Transgression of Law as Ethical Act
Nov 3rd
By Kambiz Behi Read the full text (PDF) Western philosophical literature on domination and resistance—from Hegel’s portrayal of the slave’s “unhappy unconsciousness” in the Phenomenology of the Spirit, through Nietzsche’s accounts of how bad conscience becomes the essential component of subjectivity, to Gramsci’s hegemony and “false consciousness”—cast a Manichean view of the world. Studies of Read More >
Does Knowing Matter? U.S. Congressional Records and the Arming of Iraq
Nov 3rd
By Irene Gendzier Read the full text (PDF) Does having an informed public, aware of the nature of U.S. policy in Iraq, make a difference? Would Congress and the public have responded differently to official deception concerning U.S. policies in Iraq had they known the record of previous U.S. policies, including the export of weapons Read More >
The American Empire: Triumph of Triumphalism
Nov 3rd
By Hamid Dabashi Read the full text (PDF) The fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq in March 2003, in anticipation of the seventh anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, and in commemoration of the second anniversary of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in July 2006, occasions Read More >
Radicalism, Resistance, and the Structures of Family Law
Nov 3rd
By Maria Rosaria Marella Read the full text (PDF) These few notes are about feminism and the law, better: about the approach of certain feminisms to certain areas of family law. In particular these notes are about the ideas of law as resistance and law as oppression as conceptualised by two different feminist wings in Read More >
Structures
Nov 3rd
By Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento Read the full text (PDF) Clandestine Construction Company International (“Clancco”) is an art project which explores, investigates, and examines juridical structures and their effects on art and visual culture. Clancco was incorporated in 1968 and functions by employing theoretical and operating structures similar to those of corporations. Through the format of Read More >
Freud and the Political
Nov 3rd
By Mladen Dolar Read the full text (PDF) The political in Freud conceals under the air of innocence a most difficult, even impossible topic. Both terms are far from being unequivocal—it is not quite clear, despite the appearances, what is meant by Freud, in spite of, or rather because of, the aura that surrounds his Read More >
Legal Luck
Nov 3rd
By Slavoj Žižek Read the full text (PDF) Kant grounds what he calls the “transcendental formula of public law”—“All actions relating to the right of other men are unjust if their maxim is not consistent with publicity”—in the obvious reason that a secret law, a law unknown to its subjects, would legitimize the arbitrary despotism Read More >