Law, Media Theory and Cultural Techniques

Matilda Arvidsson is Associate Professor (Docent) in International Law and Associate Senior Lecturer in Jurisprudence at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Matilda’s recent publications include International Law and Posthuman Theory co-edited with Emily Jones (Routledge, 2024) and Constituent Power: Law, Popular Rule and Politics co-edited with Leila Brännström and Panu Minkkinen (EUP, 2020). Panu Minkkinen is Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Helsinki. Panu is author of Thinking without Desire: A First Philosophy of Law (Hart, 2009), Sovereignty, Knowledge, Law (Routledge, 2011) and co-editor (with Matilda Arvidsson and Leila Brännström) of The Contemporary Relevance of Carl Schmitt: Law, Politics, Theology (Routledge, 2015) and Constituent Power: Law, Popular Rule and Politics (EUP, 2020). Tormod Johansen is Assistant Senior Lecturer in Public Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Tormod works on constitutional and administrative law, legal theory, and political theology. Tomod has written a number of journal articles and book chapters including ‘Law Beyond the Legal Form’ in Legal Form and the End of Law edited by Cosmin Cercel, Gian-Giacomo Fusco and Przemyslaw Tacik (Routledge, 2024).

• AcknowledgementsList of contributorsEditors’ Introduction to Media-Theoretical Perspectives to Law1. Ad commentarium, from Aperitif to Digestif: Comments on the Occidental History of CommentsMarkus KrajewskiSection 1: Historical Developments and the Materiality of Law2. The Data Shadow as Cultural Technique: Kerstin Anér, Cold War Data Governance, and Contemporary LawMatilda Arvidsson3. The Technique of Sovereignty Around 1650Friederike Kuntz4. Two Bodies on the Page: The Ambivalence of Minor TextTormod JohansenSection 2: Legal Space, Performance, and Embodiment5. Im/mobilities: Courtroom Movement as Cultural TechniqueJames Campbell6. Theatricality and Jurisprudence: Thinking through Law and Media with Cornelia Vismann and in Peter Weiss’s The InvestigationLeif Dahlberg7.“La salle des pas perdus”: Waiting for JusticePanu Minkkinen8. Cultural Memory Techniques of LawBenjamin Goh9. Materialities of Planetary SovereigntyAlexander Damianos10. Iconography of ExceptionalityGian-Giacomo FuscoSection 3: Present/Future Legal Technologies11. Law, Media, and Technology: Vismann with SimondonConnal Parsley and Conor Heaney12. A Media Archaeology of the Interception WarrantBernard Keenan13. Handwriting, Typeface, Algorithm: Remediation in Law’s Signatory PracticesTrish LukerIndex