Visualizing Law and Authority
Visualizing Law and Authority

Author: Leif Dahlberg

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 3110285444

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The volume "Visualizing Law and Authority. Essays on Legal Aesthetics" brings together revised papers from the international conference "Law and the Image", held in Stockholm, 24–25 September, 2010. The participants/contributors belong to the disciplines of Art history, Cultural studies, Literary and Media studies, and Law. The contributions discuss the complex relations between law, media and visual phenomena. The common theme of the essays consists in an examination of the scopic field and of regimes of visibility in phenomenological terms, arguing that law constitutes a cognitive and aesthetic field of normative world-making. Rather than merely inverting Shelley’s dictum that the "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world", the essays argue in different ways for the necessity to develop a legal aesthetics. The most immediate way of pursuing such a legal aesthetics consists in examining law itself as an aesthetic object, for instance the power of law to produce icons, in the sense of unreadable texts or textiles (Martin Kayman, Gary Watt). Several essays focus on the way that visual art and media can be used to constitute and represent political power, but also to question it and to put it into question (Chiara Battisti, Leif Dahlberg, Elina Druker, Sidia Fiorato, Paul Raffield). Other essays investigate legal structures inherent in the artwork (and the artworld) itself (Ari Hirvonen, Max Liljefors, Christine Poggi, Karen-Margrethe Simonsen). Finally, there are two essays focusing on the use of images and imagery in the legal process, explicity arguing for the need of a legal aesthetics (Daniela Carpi, Richard Sherwin). Although diverse, the individual essays are interconnected with each other in fruitful and critical ways, making both explicit and implict references to each other.

Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque
Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque

Author: Richard K Sherwin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-23

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1136718060

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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.

Visual Power, Representation and Migration Law
Visual Power, Representation and Migration Law

Author: Dorota Gozdecka

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2024-04-30

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1474460011

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This book analyses the dominant imagery related to migration and illustrates how framing of migrants as subjects viewed through the lens of the host gaze positions them for exclusion and marginalisation. It focuses on comparative sources derived from public and media visual campaigns focusing on migration issues. It illustrates how the ethical gap that the host-centric way of looking creates results in the growing suspicion of the migrant and how this ethical gap broadens and impacts on the legal exclusion of migrants as legal subjects.

The Transparency Paradox
The Transparency Paradox

Author: Ida Koivisto

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-07-14

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0192855468

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"The book provides a compact theoretical account of the hidden functioning logic of the ideal of transparency. Transparency as a concept has become hugely popular in legal discourse and beyond. The book argues that there are underlying optical, conceptual, and social reasons why transparency makes sense to us: it promises immediate seeing and understanding. That is why it can form a powerful metaphor of controllability: in the state, for example, the governed are able to monitor the inner workings of the governor through transparency practices. The modern push for transparency is premised on the notion that the truth about governance is key to its legitimacy, and transparency can provide legitimacy through access to truth. The book argues that this premise is false. Instead of accessing legitimacy by providing truth, transparency is labelled by either-or logic, which is referred to as 'the truth-legitimacy trade-off' in the book: transparency can provide either truth or legitimacy. Through this argument, the book questions the neutrality promise vested in transparency and claims that transparency is primarily a tool for creating appearances. The book consists of nine chapters divided into three parts: The Opacity of Transparency, The Promise of Transparency, and The Reality of Transparency. It combines legal and policy themes and research with interdisciplinary inputs, such as social philosophy and cultural and media studies, contributing to the growing literature on critical transparency studies"--

Legal Stagings
Legal Stagings

Author: Kjell Å Modéer

Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 8763531615

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In this book, a group of lawyers and legal historians help to identify the new Nordic legal map, which is under construction. This book is a collection of papers addressing legal staging, and most of the articles combine theoretical approaches to the visuality of law with practical experiences and effects. The texts show that law is so much more than law in action and law in books: law is also part of a visual culture. It contributes to that culture and is, in turn, analyzed, maintained, and criticized by that culture. At the same time, the cultural manifestations of law change the way we understand law and, thus, change law itself.

Research Handbook on Critical Legal Theory
Research Handbook on Critical Legal Theory

Author: Emilios Christodoulidis

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 1786438895

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Critical theory, characteristically linked with the politics of theoretical engagement, covers the manifold of the connections between theory and praxis. This thought-provoking Research Handbook captures the broad range of those connections as far as legal thought is concerned and retains an emphasis both on the politics of theory, and on the notion of theoretical engagement. The first part examines the question of definition and tracks the origins and development of critical legal theory along its European and North American trajectories. The second part looks at the thematic connections between the development of legal theory and other currents of critical thought such as; Feminism, Marxism, Critical Race Theory, varieties of post-modernism, as well as the various ‘turns’ (ethical, aesthetic, political) of critical legal theory. The third and final part explores particular fields of law, addressing the question how the field has been shaped by critical legal theory, or what critical approaches reveal about the field, with the clear focus on opportunities for social transformation.

The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities
The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities

Author: Simon Stern

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 921

ISBN-13: 0190695625

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How might law matter to the humanities? How might the humanities matter to law? In its approach to both of these questions, The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities shows how rich a resource the law is for humanistic study, as well as how and why the humanities are vital for understanding law. Tackling questions of method, key themes and concepts, and a variety of genres and areas of the law, this collection of essays by leading scholars from a variety of disciplines illuminates new questions and articulates an exciting new agenda for scholarship in law and humanities.

Visualization: The Best Creative Visualization Techniques (How Successful People Use the Power of Manifesting and Subconscious Brain to Achieve Goals)
Visualization: The Best Creative Visualization Techniques (How Successful People Use the Power of Manifesting and Subconscious Brain to Achieve Goals)

Author: Mattie Rossiter

Publisher: Mattie Rossiter

Published: 2022-06-03

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13:

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The truth is, many people fail to ever visualize properly because they never really found the necessary information that can really make a change. By purchasing this book and reading through the concepts that can really make a long lasting difference; you will be putting yourself in a position to finally visualize correctly, see positive change, and will accomplish more with these visualization techniques than ever before. The book will also illustrate to you: Why visualizing is so important in your life What results you can expect to reach through visualization Which ones are the main reasons why you don’t reach the results you want Which ones are the key elements (that most people keep secret) to reach your goals My experiences and my personal suggestions to improve your results My method in 9 steps … and a lot more! Containing not only background information on techniques but scripts that you can use to practice the skill for yourself, this book can provide you with everything you need to know about Visualization. Get this book today.

"Manifestation Mastery: Unleashing the Power Within"

Author: Dishani Seth

Publisher: Dishani Seth

Published:

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13:

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"Manifestation Mastery: Unleashing the Power Within" is an enlightening journey into the depths of conscious creation, offering readers a comprehensive roadmap to unlock their innate potential and manifest their deepest desires. Through this transformative guide, readers will embark on a soul-stirring exploration of the interconnectedness between mind, body, and the boundless universe, discovering the profound influence they hold over their own reality. This expansive volume delves into the art and science of manifestation, providing readers with practical tools, timeless wisdom, and empowering insights to harness the immense power within themselves. From understanding the fundamental principles of manifestation to mastering advanced techniques, each chapter offers illuminating guidance to help readers navigate their manifestation journey with clarity, confidence, and purpose. Readers will learn how to cultivate a mindset of abundance, set clear intentions, and align their thoughts, emotions, and actions with their deepest desires. Through visualization exercises, affirmations, and manifestation rituals, they will uncover the transformative potential of gratitude, belief, and inspired action in shaping their reality. Moreover, "Manifestation Mastery" explores the role of numerology, cosmic consciousness, and universal laws in the manifestation process, offering readers profound insights into the interconnected web of existence and their place within it. Through the manifestation numbers technique and cosmic alignment practices, readers will learn how to harness the energies of the universe to accelerate their manifestation efforts and unlock new levels of abundance, success, and fulfillment. Beyond individual transformation, this book invites readers to embrace their role as conscious creators in the collective evolution of humanity. By cultivating a deep sense of connection with the universe and contributing to the collective consciousness, readers will not only manifest their own dreams but also inspire positive change on a global scale. With its captivating prose, practical exercises, and profound wisdom, "Manifestation Mastery: Unleashing the Power Within" serves as a beacon of hope and empowerment for anyone seeking to manifest their highest potential and create a life of purpose, abundance, and joy. Embark on this transformative journey and awaken to the limitless possibilities that await when you dare to unleash the power within.

Visualizing Information Using SVG and X3D
Visualizing Information Using SVG and X3D

Author: Vladimir Geroimenko

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-11-19

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1846280842

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Correcting the Great Mistake People often mistake one thing for another. That’s human nature. However, one would expect the leaders in a particular ?eld of endeavour to have superior ab- ities to discriminate among the developments within that ?eld. That is why it is so perplexing that the technology elite – supposedly savvy folk such as software developers, marketers and businessmen – have continually mistaken Web-based graphics for something it is not. The ?rst great graphics technology for the Web,VRML,has been mistaken for something else since its inception. Viewed variously as a game system,a format for architectural walkthroughs,a platform for multi-user chat and an augmentation of reality,VRML may qualify as the least understood invention in the history of inf- mation technology. Perhaps it is so because when VRML was originally introduced it was touted as a tool for putting the shopping malls of the world online,at once prosaic and horrifyingly mundane to those of us who were developing it. Perhaps those ?rst two initials,“VR”,created expectations of sprawling,photorealistic f- tasy landscapes for exploration and play across the Web. Or perhaps the magnitude of the invention was simply too great to be understood at the time by the many, ironically even by those spending the money to underwrite its development. Regardless of the reasons,VRML suffered in the mainstream as it was twisted to meet unintended ends and stretched far beyond its limitations.