Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2018

Abstract

In law’s visual economy our commitment to justice grows out of a renewed encounter with an interior libidinal source whose ongoing collective investment binds us to the nomos in which we live. We experience this corporeal bond in paintings, films, and video images on screens large and small. In the ethically inflected aesthetic of post-secular jurisprudence, justice is to law as beauty is to art. As distant as an abstract expressionist canvas, as close as any neighbor, or indeed any screen on which the neighbor becomes real to us. That is where we behold the source and instantiation of law’s judgment and authority.

Comments

What Authorizes the Image, Chapter 14 in Law and the Visual: Representation, Technologies, and Critique at 330-353 (D. Manderson, ed, University of Toronto Press, 2018)

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