Introduction to the theory of the image: Narcissus and the other in the mirror

Legendre, Pierre; Goodrich, Peter; Pottage, Alain

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“…Reflection comes before judgment; as I judge, I do not open up meaning, but close it down-I am (I hope) coming to a point, to an ending, to a decision. 18 Once I have 16 Peter Goodrich is the 21st century scholar who applies Nietzsche's work to legal texts in this way [see 8]. Highlighting Nietzsche's love of the text as a philologist, Goodrich argues that he disliked the tendency of jurists to read for the purposes of closing down and reducing meaning-of coming to 'the interpretation'rather than opening up and expanding the rich potential of a text.…”

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Anderson v Dredd [2138] Megacity LR (A) 1

Thomas

2021

Int J Semiot Law

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Administrativejudgment on the nature of judgmentconflict between Judges in judicial practiceclaimant (Judge Anderson) challenges the judicial capacity of respondent (Judge Dredd)claimant open and fluid in judicial stylerespondent certain and authoritative in judicial styleinsights from Psi Division on the role of judgment in the universe -whether respondent is a good judgewhether judgment closes down meaningwhether respondent is inhumanwhether judges are inhumanwhether judging is horrificinsight from 20th century fiction on the place of humans in the universehorror of HP Lovecraftsuppression of horrific cosmic context within judicial institutionsuppression for the good of society.

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Anderson v Dredd [2138] Megacity LR (A) 1

Thomas

2021

Int J Semiot Law

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“…Anderson J's argument implies that a greater degree of reflection is needed to access and understand the meanings available in a legal text-be they literal (the favourite of lawyers, she says), symbolic, metaphoric, historical, imagistic, or otherwise. 16 Perhaps Anderson J's recourse to historical analyses is appropriate here, because the practice of Judges today is far removed from the judicial practice typical of a 20th or 21st century legal system. In Mega-City One, Judges pass sentence instantly 17 on the street-a measure calculated to tackle the dramatic rise in crime in our high-density urban society.…”

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“…To judge in this context is futile, meaningless-and horrific. 37 Just as the Legendre's legal institution protects us from the 'speechless void' of the 'beyond of institutions' [16], as noted above (note 32). 38 As his narrator-character states in his quintessential story, The Call of Cthulhu: 'I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life' [19: 91].…”

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“…Anderson's argument is that this alienation is a dehumanisation: we are separated from our living humanity, from the fluidity and excesses of life that cannot be captured in rational and textual legal discourse-the mask of the legal subject, of the legal actor, does not show the 'living face' of the human. See also[16], in which Legendre explores similar divisions on a more epistemological level, whereby law becomes something inscribed upon a 'screen' that separates and protects us from the 'speechless void', from 'the fantastic beyond of institutions': 'To…”

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Anderson v Dredd [2137] Mega-City LR 1

Giddens

2016

Int J Semiot Law

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Administrativejudgment on the nature of judgmentconflict between Judges in judicial practiceclaimant (Judge Anderson) challenges the judicial capacity of respondent (Judge Dredd)claimant open and fluid in judicial stylerespondent certain and authoritative in judicial styleinsights from Psi Division on the role of judgment in the universe-whether respondent is a good judgewhether judgment closes down meaningwhether respondent is inhumanwhether judges are inhumanwhether judging is horrificinsight from 20th century fiction on the place of humans in the universehorror of HP Lovecraftsuppression of horrific cosmic context within judicial institutionsuppression for the good of society.

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The Laws of Image-Nation: Brazilian Racial Tropes and the Shadows of the Slave Quarters

Lissovsky

Matos

2018

Law Critique

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The commemorative edition of the 80th anniversary of Casa Grande & Senzala, the founding book of Brazilian modern sociology written by Gilberto Freyre and published in 2013, shows on its cover a glamorous 'Casa Grande' (Big House, the Lord's house), lit like an architectural landmark, ready to serve as the set for a film or a TV soap opera. What happened to the 'Senzala' (the Slave Quarters) that appeared on the covers of the dozens of previous editions? This paper investigates, following some changes in Brazilian Visual Culture in the twentieth century, how such an astonishing disappearance could take place. The paper examines the image of the slave quarters as part of a racial trope: a foundational and colonial trope, one that is capable of institutionalizing subjects and producing a subaltern mode of subjectivity. It also explores connections between critical legal studies and visual and cultural studies to question how and why knowledge produced over the status, nature and function of images contributes to instituteand institutionalize subjectivity. In order to explain this disappearance we propose a legal-iconological experiment. We will enunciate, and attempt to enact, the Statute of Image-nation: the laws of the image that constitute subjectivity in Brazilian racial tropes. In doing so, we might be able to point out the ways in which law and image function together in institutionalizing subjectivityand subjection.

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Introduction to the theory of the image: Narcissus and the other in the mirror

Cited by 8 publications

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Anderson v Dredd [2138] Megacity LR (A) 1

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