Leonard Lawlor’s “From the Trace to the Law: Derridean Politics,” aims to situate Derrida’s later political engagements in terms of his earlier work on language, namely how Derrida’s work in political theory is informed by his critique of metaphysics. By focusing on Derrida’s insistence on the irreducible metaphoricity of language, as well as his concepts [...]
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L. Lawlor: ‘From the Trace to the Law: Derridean Politics’
Posted in Force of Law, Husserl, justice, law, signification, trace on November 29, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Regarding those who decide
Posted in Force of Law, Freud, ghosts, justice on October 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Although Derrida devotes a great deal of attention to an urgent period of undecidability that precedes any decision and the coinciding sense of betrayal that follows such a decision he only hints at what characterizes the subjectivity of the decider(s).
Tasing a Bro
Posted in Force of Law, ghosts, justice, law, police, time on September 23, 2007 | 4 Comments »
You’ve surely seen it, but it is worth seeing with the conceptual tools of this course (thus far). And maybe asking some disconcerting questions about the inability of justice to speak itself in a way that mobilizes, rather than unnerves. Of course I’m talking about the UFlorida student who was handcuffed and tasered by security [...]
Love and Justice?
Posted in Force of Law, ghosts, justice, law, love, police on September 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Take a few minutes to listen to and watch this short exchange with Derrida on love. Aside from the rather comical beginning (the interviewer’s French slurs amour to it sounds like mort – love sounds like death!), as well as Derrida’s strangely unsuccessful attempt to get a specific question, Derrida’s thoughts are really interesting.
F@#k the police … ?
Posted in Benjamin, Force of Law, police on September 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We started an interesting discussion over the last half of class on 19 September regarding the function of the police in Derrida’s reading of Benjamin. So, a quick note on what Benjamin and Derrida say about the police, then a comment of my own.
Equal, Unequal : Law, Justice
Posted in Force of Law, Gutierrez, Levinas, aporia, justice, law on September 13, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I wanted to write this quick note about Wednesday’s class discussion.
Central to our concerns, of course, is the relation between law and justice in Derrida’s “Force of Law” essay. The claim is that law is founded in an act of violence and rests on a mystical foundation, which is a way of indicating the fiat [...]
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