TY - CHAP
T1 - Lex fugit
T2 - on acts of legibIlity
AU - Gil, Isabel Maria de Oliveira Capeloa
PY - 2018/7/1
Y1 - 2018/7/1
N2 - This chapter debates the production of legal discourse as potentiality in popular culture, addressing the ways in which distinct media formats display “the legal imagination” as a magnet that intervenes in representing the breeches and eventually (re)shaping the legal pacts. By arguing that the law is a porous discourse that interferes in and is affected by structures, narratives and developments across different partitions of the sensible, the chapter takes a non-originalist position, contending that the negotiations between representation and the institution of law, by conflating the letter with the spirit, speak to the changing concerns of different communities over time, geography, ethnicity, gender, religion and age. The case-based argument pivots around representative points of crisis in the legal order, as they work to induce a crisis of legibility; rhetorically support the normative reading of the crisis; simplify and popularize crisis, and finally, convey a denunciatory reading of the crisis.
AB - This chapter debates the production of legal discourse as potentiality in popular culture, addressing the ways in which distinct media formats display “the legal imagination” as a magnet that intervenes in representing the breeches and eventually (re)shaping the legal pacts. By arguing that the law is a porous discourse that interferes in and is affected by structures, narratives and developments across different partitions of the sensible, the chapter takes a non-originalist position, contending that the negotiations between representation and the institution of law, by conflating the letter with the spirit, speak to the changing concerns of different communities over time, geography, ethnicity, gender, religion and age. The case-based argument pivots around representative points of crisis in the legal order, as they work to induce a crisis of legibility; rhetorically support the normative reading of the crisis; simplify and popularize crisis, and finally, convey a denunciatory reading of the crisis.
U2 - 10.1163/9789004376175_008
DO - 10.1163/9789004376175_008
M3 - Chapter
VL - 33
T3 - Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race
SP - 97
EP - 112
BT - Legibility in the age of signs and machines
A2 - Hesselberth, Pepita
A2 - Houwen, Janna
A2 - Peeren, Esther
A2 - Vos, Ruby de
PB - Brill
ER -