Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque explores the
profound impact that visual digital technologies are having on the
practice and theory of law. Today, lawyers, judges, and lay jurors
face a vast array of visual evidence and visual argument. From
videos documenting crimes and accidents to computer displays of
their digital simulation, increasingly, the search for fact-based
justice inside the courtroom is becoming an offshoot of visual
meaning making. But when law migrates to the screen it lives there
as other images do, motivating belief and judgment on the basis of
visual delight and unconscious fantasies and desires as well as
actualities. Law as image also shares broader cultural anxieties
concerning not only the truth of the image but also the mimetic
capacity itself, the human ability to represent reality. What is
real, and what is simulation? This is the hallmark of the baroque,
when dreams fold into dreams, like immersion in a seemingly endless
matrix of digital appearances. When fact-based justice recedes,
laws proliferate within a field of uncertainty. Left unchecked,
this condition of ontological and ethical uneasiness threatens the
legitimacy of law s claim to power. Visualizing Law in the Age of
the Digital Baroque offers a jurisprudential paradigm that is equal
to the challenge that current cultural conditions present."
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