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Populism in politics and policy orientations in law have thrown the
jurisdiction of the academy and the disciplines of interpretation
into disarray. Critique flounders in abstraction and negativity,
law loses itself in particularity. Administering Interpretation
brings together philosophers, humanists, and jurists from both
continental and Anglophone jurisdictions to reassess the status and
trajectory of interpretative theory as applied in the art of law.
Tracking the thread of philosophical influences upon the community
of legal interpretation, the essays move from the translation and
wake of Derrida to the work of Agamben, from deconstruction to
oikononmia. Sharing roots in the philological excavation of the
political theology of modern law, contributors assess the failure
of secularism and the continuing theological borrowings of
juridical interpretation. The book brings contemporary critique to
bear upon the interpretative apparatuses of exclusion, the law of
spectacular sovereignty, and the bodies that lie in its wake.
Contributors: Giovanna Borradori, Marinos Diamantides, Allen
Feldman, Stanley Fish, Pierre Legrand, Bernadette Meyler, Michel
Rosenfeld, Bernhard Schlink, Jeanne Schroeder, Laurent de Sutter,
Katrin Trüstedt, Marco Wan
Populism in politics and policy orientations in law have thrown the
jurisdiction of the academy and the disciplines of interpretation
into disarray. Critique flounders in abstraction and negativity,
law loses itself in particularity. Administering Interpretation
brings together philosophers, humanists, and jurists from both
continental and Anglophone jurisdictions to reassess the status and
trajectory of interpretative theory as applied in the art of law.
Tracking the thread of philosophical influences upon the community
of legal interpretation, the essays move from the translation and
wake of Derrida to the work of Agamben, from deconstruction to
oikononmia. Sharing roots in the philological excavation of the
political theology of modern law, contributors assess the failure
of secularism and the continuing theological borrowings of
juridical interpretation. The book brings contemporary critique to
bear upon the interpretative apparatuses of exclusion, the law of
spectacular sovereignty, and the bodies that lie in its wake.
Contributors: Giovanna Borradori, Marinos Diamantides, Allen
Feldman, Stanley Fish, Pierre Legrand, Bernadette Meyler, Michel
Rosenfeld, Bernhard Schlink, Jeanne Schroeder, Laurent de Sutter,
Katrin Trustedt, Marco Wan
"A sophisticated and persuasive late-modernist political
analysis that consistently draws the reader into the
narratives of the author and those of the people of
violence in Northern Ireland to whom he talked. . . .
Simply put, this book is a feast for the intellect"--
Thomas M. Wilson, "American Anthropologist"
"One of the best books to have been written on Northern
Ireland. . . . A highly imagination and significant book.
"Formations of Violence" is an important addition to
the literature on political violence."--David E. Schmitt,
"American Political Science Review"
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War and Algorithm (Hardcover)
Max Liljefors, Gregor Noll, Daniel Steuer; Contributions by Allen Feldman, Howard Caygill, …
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R4,129
Discovery Miles 41 290
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Traditional concepts of social, political, and legal theory are
increasingly at odds with current practices of warfare, while more
recent poststructuralist theories tend to mimic their form. A
conceptual framework for capturing the real-world phenomena is
missing. In robotics and artificial intelligence, particularly in
weapon systems that are constituted as man-machine ensembles, there
are no longer 'agents' to whom 'responsibility' could be ascribed,
making fundamental legal concepts inapplicable. These technologies
become self-validating, morally blind practices. And yet, the
visual systems employed in warfare, and the rhetoric surrounding
them, follow the paradigm and dream of omnivoyance, a God's eye
view of the world. This idea of perfect accuracy and completeness
of vision (and hence knowledge) seemingly affords objectivity to
the acts carried out by the systems. It is forgotten that any form
of vision produces its own forms of invisibilities (and therefore
ignorance). Together the three chapters and their respondents
demonstrate that it is less and less possible to articulate the
oppositions between knowledge and ignorance, lawfulness and
lawlessness, and visibility and invisibility, leading to a stasis
in which acts of war, and war-like acts continue to spread, while
their precise nature becomes increasingly difficult to pin down.
Closing on a manifesto, jointly authored by Liljefors, Noll and
Steuer, the book draws further conclusions regarding the changing
forms of violence and likely consequences of a fully digitalized
world.
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War and Algorithm (Paperback)
Max Liljefors, Gregor Noll, Daniel Steuer; Contributions by Allen Feldman, Howard Caygill, …
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R1,292
Discovery Miles 12 920
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Traditional concepts of social, political, and legal theory are
increasingly at odds with current practices of warfare, while more
recent poststructuralist theories tend to mimic their form. A
conceptual framework for capturing the real-world phenomena is
missing. In robotics and artificial intelligence, particularly in
weapon systems that are constituted as man-machine ensembles, there
are no longer 'agents' to whom 'responsibility' could be ascribed,
making fundamental legal concepts inapplicable. These technologies
become self-validating, morally blind practices. And yet, the
visual systems employed in warfare, and the rhetoric surrounding
them, follow the paradigm and dream of omnivoyance, a God's eye
view of the world. This idea of perfect accuracy and completeness
of vision (and hence knowledge) seemingly affords objectivity to
the acts carried out by the systems. It is forgotten that any form
of vision produces its own forms of invisibilities (and therefore
ignorance). Together the three chapters and their respondents
demonstrate that it is less and less possible to articulate the
oppositions between knowledge and ignorance, lawfulness and
lawlessness, and visibility and invisibility, leading to a stasis
in which acts of war, and war-like acts continue to spread, while
their precise nature becomes increasingly difficult to pin down.
Closing on a manifesto, jointly authored by Liljefors, Noll and
Steuer, the book draws further conclusions regarding the changing
forms of violence and likely consequences of a fully digitalized
world.
In this jarring look at contemporary warfare and political
visuality, renowned anthropologist of violence Allen Feldman
provocatively argues that contemporary sovereign power mobilizes
asymmetric, clandestine, and ultimately unending war as a will to
truth. Whether responding to the fantasy of weapons of mass
destruction or an existential threat to civilization, Western
political sovereignty seeks to align justice, humanitarian right,
and democracy with technocratic violence and visual dominance.
Connecting Guantanamo tribunals to the South African Truth and
Reconciliation Commission, American counterfeit killings in
Afghanistan to the Baader-Meinhof paintings of Gerhard Richter, and
the video erasure of Rodney King to lynching photography and
political animality, among other scenes of terror, Feldman contests
sovereignty's claims to transcendental right -whether humanitarian,
neoliberal, or democratic-by showing how dogmatic truth is crafted
and terror indemnified by the prosecutorial media and materiality
of war. Excavating a scenography of trials-formal or covert,
orchestrated or improvised, criminalizing or criminal-Feldman shows
how the will to truth disappears into the very violence it
interrogates. He maps the sensory inscriptions and erasures of war,
highlighting war as a media that severs factuality from actuality
to render violence just. He proposes that war promotes an
anesthesiology that interdicts the witness of a sensory and
affective commons that has the capacity to speak truth to war.
Feldman uses layered deconstructive description to decelerate the
ballistical tempo of war to salvage the embodied actualities and
material histories that war reduces to the ashes of collateral
damage, the automatism of drones, and the opacities of black sites.
The result is a penetrating work that marries critical visual
theory, political philosophy, anthropology, and media archeology
into a trenchant dissection of emerging forms of sovereignty and
state power that war now makes possible.
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