Forensic Iconicity: The Experimental Law’s Whatness in Digital Culture
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Cristina Costantini
Cristina Costantini is Professor of Private Comparative Law at the University of Perugia. Her fields of research are Comparative Law, Law and Literature, Law and Philosophy, Law and Politics, Legal Theory, Law and Theology, Legal History. Among her publications:
La Legge e il Tempio: Storia comparata della giustizia inglese (Carocci, 2007). Her latest monograph is:Nomos e rappresentazione. Ripensare metodi e funzioni del diritto comparato (Mimesis, 2017).
Abstract
Thinking about the whatness of the Law in the digital era means to return to question its ontological abyss and its metaphysical violence. The essay rests on the idea that Law, to declare or to command, to condemn or to absolve, needs a material medium of communication that allows its sensible perceptibility. At the same time, the concrete appearances of the Law in the public sphere are partial and paradoxical: they are haunted by an ontological excess that resists against a conclusive form of mundane apprehension. Forensic Iconicity is the expression coined to figuratively depict the structural ambiguity between ostensibility and concealment that marks the Law’s presentialness. The aim of the work is to explore the transmutations and the displacements of the ancient bodies of symbolic representation of the Law up to the current dispersion in algorithmic sequences and digital traces. Moreover, according to the view proposed, the unresolved relationship between the abstract prophecy of Law and its physical precipitate has been captured and explained by the means of different paradigms, moving from political theology to algorithmic angelism.
About the author
Cristina Costantini is Professor of Private Comparative Law at the University of Perugia. Her fields of research are Comparative Law, Law and Literature, Law and Philosophy, Law and Politics, Legal Theory, Law and Theology, Legal History. Among her publications: La Legge e il Tempio: Storia comparata della giustizia inglese (Carocci, 2007). Her latest monograph is: Nomos e rappresentazione. Ripensare metodi e funzioni del diritto comparato (Mimesis, 2017).
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: Digital Ontology and Epistemology. Between Law, Literature and the Visual Arts
- “The Earth Is Flat!” The Literary Complexity of Truth, Lies and Fake Knowledge
- Saving Content in Digital Surroundings: A Safe Solution?
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- Digital Voodoo: Who Does What?
- Forensic Iconicity: The Experimental Law’s Whatness in Digital Culture
- Research
- Digital Media, Fears, and Their Ontological Demagogic Power: Utopia, Homeland, Occupied
- Law as Literature: The Interdisciplinary Endeavour of Oudropo,, and Their Interdisciplinary Play with Text
- The Merchant of Venice and the Paschal Moon
- Book Reviews
- Daniela Carpi: Monsters and Monstrosity. From the Canon to the Anti-Canon: Literary and Juridical Subversions
- Jonas Ross Kjærgård, Reimagining Society in Eighteenth-Century French Literature
