Law and New Media: West of Everything

289 Pages·2019·27.059 MB·English

by  Christian Delage, Peter Goodrich, Marco Wan

Law and New Media
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Law and New Media
West of Everything
Edited by Christian Delage,
Peter Goodrich and
Marco Wan
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Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Contributors ix
1 Introduction: Wes t of Everything 1
Christian Delage, Peter Goodrich and Marco Wan
Part 1 Heading West
2 Th e Aesthetics of Convivencia: Visualising a Mode
of Living Together in Al-Andalus 31
Raja Sakrani
3 Auriculation 56
Peter Goodrich
4 Is Pasteur American? Th e Story of Louis Pasteur
(William Dieterle, 1936): From Nineteenth-century
Laboratory to Twentieth-century Trials –
A Transnational Perspective 73
Claire Demoulin
5 Souvenir, Fiction, Imagination: Th e Times of Fascism
in Th e Conformist 90
Th ibault Guichard
6 Th e Law of the Father and Th e Order of Time:
Charles Laughton’s Th e Night of the Hunter 111
Christian Delage
7 Th e Litigating Dead: Zombie Jurisprudence in
Contemporary Popular Culture 138
William MacNeil
8 Form of Life: How the Law Became an Image 156
Emanuele Coccia
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Part 2 New Frontiers of Jurisprudence
9 Virtual Judges in Immigrant Detention:
Th e Mise-en-scène of No-show Justice 169
Michelle Castañeda
10 Comity, Facebook and the (Legal) Personality
of Animals 197
Christopher Hutton
11 Moral Choices and Ethical Systems in Videogames 210
Antoine Rocipon
12 Reading Law: A Beginner’s Guide to the Manual of
How to Read the Book of Law Yet to Come 222
Daniela Gandorfer
13 Registers of Gay Marriage in New Media and Law 246
Marco Wan
14 Kamikaze Law: On the Aesthetics of the Legal
War on Terror 257
Laurent de Sutter
Index 269
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Figures
1.1 Palais de Justice, Paris 3
1.2 Entrance to the Palais de Justice, Paris 4
1.3 Criminal Court, Palais de Justice, Paris 5
1.4 @realDonaldTrump 12
1.5 V for Vendetta mask in London ‘Bedroom Tax’ protest 17
1.6 Emma Gomez’s six minutes of silence 27
2.1 Puente Maria Cristina, inauguración Capitalidad Europea 32
2.2 Muslims and Christians celebrating together, as they
used to, for example, in the Alhambra at Christmas
and on New Year’s Eve 35
2.3 Declaración por la paz y convivencia entre los pueblos,
7 June 2014 37
2.4 Puente Maria Cristina, inauguración Capitalidad Europea 39
2.5 Th e Great Mosque of Testour, with detail 41
2.6 Th e mihrab of the Mosque of Testour 41
2.7 Church San Román of Toledo 43
2.8 Th e Synagogue del Tránsito, since 2003: El Museo Sefardí,
Toledo; detail of the Sala de Oración (room of prayer) 43
2.9 Th e Bible translated into Arabic by Saadia Gaon,
tenth century 44
2.10 Estatua para Maimónides (* 1135 Córdoba, † 1204, Cairo)
en Córdoba, Plazuela de Maimónides 45
2.11 Maimónides, Judeo-Arabic draft of ‘Th e Guide for the
Perplexed’, Egypt, end of twelfth century 45
2.12 Scene of Judgement in Kalila wa Dimna. Syrian copy from
the tenth century 46
2.13 Manuscrito de Calila e Dimna, colección de cuentos
castellanos de 1251 46
2.14 Alfonso X dialoga con médicos árabes, ‘La Medicina en
Al- Andalus’ 48
2.15 A Jew and a Muslim playing chess in thirteenth-century
al-Andalus. El Libro de los Juegos 48
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2.16 School of Alfonso X, later half of the thirteenth century,
Muslim and Christian Musicians 49
2.17 Muslim and Christian knights embracing in greeting 50
3.1 Auditus, from Daniel Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria (1620) 56
3.2 Diagram of the ear 57
3.3 Paradin, servitus libera, from Symbola heroica (1560) 61
3.4 Otto Scarlattini, Homo et eius partes fi guratus (1695) 62
3.5 Servitus, Valeriano, Hieroglyphica (1550) 64
3.6 Map of the Inns of Court 71
3.7 Chancery Lane 72
4.1 Pasteur, painting of Albert Edelfelt 76
4.2 Pasteur, mise-en-scène of the fi lm 76
5.1 In some shots, Bertolucci is inspired by Giorgio
de Chirico’s works 103
5.2 Giorgio de Chirico, L’addio dell’amico che parte all’amico
che rimane (1970) 105
5.3 Bertolucci constructs a contemporaneity between two
temporalities, present time and past time 105
5.4 Is ‘image-souvenir’ real or fi ctional? 107
6.1–6.2 Th e Night of the Hunter: John, the son of Ben Harper,
swearing an oath 116
6.3–6.4 Th e Night of the Hunter: John crying ‘Dad’ 116
6.5 Th e Night of the Hunter: Angst 118
6.6–6.8 Th e Night of the Hunter: Arrest and return of the money 119
9.1 Sam Sundius, ‘Deportation bus’, 2018 186
9.2 Sam Sundius, ‘Immigration court trailer’, 2018 189
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Contributors
Michelle Castañeda (New York University)
Emanuele Coccia (School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences –
EHESS, Paris)
Laurent de Sutter (University of Brussels)
Christian Delage (Université Paris 8 and Director of Institut d’Histoire du
Temps Présent – IHTP)
Claire Demoulin (Université Paris 8 and IHTP)
Daniela Gandorfer (Princeton University, NJ)
Peter Goodrich (Cardozo Law and New York University Abu Dhabi)
Th ibault Guichard (Université Paris 8)
Christopher Hutton (University of Hong Kong)
William MacNeil (School of Law & Justice, Southern Cross University,
Lismore, New South Wales and Coolangatta, Queensland)
Antoine Rocipon (Université Paris 8 and IHTP)
Raja Sakrani (University of Bonn)
Marco Wan (University of Hong Kong)
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