Matterphorics

On the Laws of Theory

AvDaniela Gandorfer

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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In Matterphorics, Daniela Gandorfer challenges modernist legal theory’s separation of concepts from matter, developing a mode of theory attuned to indeterminacy, relationality, and material entanglement. Gandorfer offers a method for generating legal concepts that respond to ontological complexity rather than reducing the world to fixed categories or representational entities. Through a range of recent case studies ranging from outer space exploration and Red Bull’s high-altitude freefalls to seabed mining, cryonics, and the copyrighting of DNA, she shows how law is unsettled when confronted with technological frontiers and planetary transformations. Instead of treating law as an abstract system, she proposes it as a creative and situated practice—one that must continually reimagine its concepts in response to shifting relations between matter, technology, and thought. In so doing, Gandorfer formulates legal theory as a creative and situated response to planetary and technological transformation.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-02-13
Mått:152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt:572 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:300
Förlag:Duke University Press
ISBN:9781478029472

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Daniela Gandorfer is Lecturer of Law at the University of Westminster and coeditor of Research Handbook on Law and Literature.

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“Ever since first encountering Gandorfer’s exorbitantly novel concept, I have been encountering, designating, observing and expatiating upon matterphors and matterphorics in a constant rhythm of sensible ambulations, reveries, and cogitations. This magnificent neo-materialist work constantly brings us crashing back to ground zero.”—Peter Goodrich, author of Judicial Uses of Images: Vision in Decision“Matterphorics is an ambitious and exciting interdisciplinary book on the relationship between law, literature, theory, and the materiality of life. This is a scholar who has mastered a wide-ranging canon of political theory, philosophy, feminist studies, security studies, but also can discuss phenomena as diverse as nuclear fission and maritime law. An outstanding work.”—Debarati Sanyal, author of Arts of the Border: Fugitive Bodies at Europe's Edge

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments ixIntroduction. How to Begin? A Guide 1Part I. Synaesethics of Thought: Doing Theory Matterphorically1. Thinking-with Matter(s): Unloving Thought, Unfriending Theory 152. Metaphor and Nuclear Equations: On the Sunny Side of Theory 273. Matterphorics of ?-Human(ism): Theory for Loyal Traitors 374. Unreasonable Canons: Laws of Thinking 575. Minds Fucking, Making Love: Expansionist Theory 77Part II. Forces of Law: A Matterphorical Case Study on Man Falling6. Drinking the Kool Aid Red Bull: A Matterphorical Case Study 997. I Am Free, Free Falling 1098. Home of the Mind: I Am Representing, Therefore I Am 1199. Under Pressure: Falling Deeper for Power 143Part III. Cutting-Edge Theory: (Life) Story Telling10. Matterphorics of Life: An All-Too-Real Story 16711. When Theory Crashes (Into) Life 17312. The Right to Narrate (a) Life: Cutting Theories 18313. Matters of Indeterminacy: Stakes of Concepting 203Epilogue. A Concept Yet to Come: A Decentralized Right to Breathe 211Notes 219Bibliography 261Index 279