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On Comics and Legal Aesthetics - Multimodality and the Haunted Mask of Knowing (Hardcover)
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On Comics and Legal Aesthetics - Multimodality and the Haunted Mask of Knowing (Hardcover)
Series: Discourses of Law
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What are the implications of comics for law? Tackling this
question, On Comics and Legal Aesthetics explores the
epistemological dimensions of comics and the way this once-maligned
medium can help think about - and reshape - the form of law.
Traversing comics, critical, and cultural legal studies, it seeks
to enrich the theorisation of comics with a critical aesthetics
that expands its value and significance for law, as well as
knowledge more generally. It argues that comics' multimodality -
its hybrid structure, which represents a meeting point of text,
image, reason, and aesthetics - opens understanding of the limits
of law's rational texts by shifting between multiple frames and
modes of presentation. Comics thereby exposes the way all forms of
knowledge are shaped out of an unstructured universe, becoming a
mask over this chaotic 'beyond'. This mask of knowing remains
haunted - by that which it can never fully capture or represent.
Comics thus models knowledge as an infinity of nested frames
haunted by the chaos without structure. In such a model, the
multiple aspects of law become one region of a vast and bottomless
cascade of perspectives - an infinite multiframe that extends far
beyond the traditional confines of the comics page, rendering law
boundless.
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