Cornelia Vismann (1961–2010) was Professor for the History and Theory of Cultural Techniques at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. She is the author of Files: Law and Media Technology (Stanford, 2008), her only other book in English.

"Vismann's work has been received with rare enthusiasm—yet this volume opens a further, still-to-be-discovered dimension of her thought. These essays unfold her radical rethinking of law, archives, sovereignty, and the material technologies of power. Indispensable for cultural studies, media studies, political philosophy, history, and postcolonial and critical theory."—Claus Pias, Leuphana University"The essays collected here cover many of the fields and themes of Vismann's pathbreaking work. An excellent introduction, even easier to access than her other books."—Rudiger Campe, Yale University

• Introduction Cornelia Vismann, Critical Legal Studies, and German Media Theory—Anthony Enns PART 1. On Rome1. Inescapable Rome2. Word for Word : Translation and Law3. Time of Files4. Sources5. Cursing in Stone: Teiorum Dirae—Teian CursesPART 2. Administration: According to the Files6. Governing Techniques Around 1550–77: On Elisabeth of Brandenburg (1510–1558)7. Autobiography and File InspectionPART 3. Media and Cultural Techniques8. St. Benedict, Inc.: On the Legality of Community9. Action Writing: On Orality in Law10. Genealogical Order and Asexual ReproductionNotesIndex

Cornelia Vismann (1961–2010) was Professor for the History and Theory of Cultural Techniques at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. She is the author of Files: Law and Media Technology (Stanford, 2008), her only other book in English.

"Vismann's work has been received with rare enthusiasm—yet this volume opens a further, still-to-be-discovered dimension of her thought. These essays unfold her radical rethinking of law, archives, sovereignty, and the material technologies of power. Indispensable for cultural studies, media studies, political philosophy, history, and postcolonial and critical theory."—Claus Pias, Leuphana University"The essays collected here cover many of the fields and themes of Vismann's pathbreaking work. An excellent introduction, even easier to access than her other books."—Rudiger Campe, Yale University

• Introduction Cornelia Vismann, Critical Legal Studies, and German Media Theory—Anthony Enns PART 1. On Rome1. Inescapable Rome2. Word for Word : Translation and Law3. Time of Files4. Sources5. Cursing in Stone: Teiorum Dirae—Teian CursesPART 2. Administration: According to the Files6. Governing Techniques Around 1550–77: On Elisabeth of Brandenburg (1510–1558)7. Autobiography and File InspectionPART 3. Media and Cultural Techniques8. St. Benedict, Inc.: On the Legality of Community9. Action Writing: On Orality in Law10. Genealogical Order and Asexual ReproductionNotesIndex

Cornelia Vismann (1961–2010) was Professor for the History and Theory of Cultural Techniques at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. She is the author of Files: Law and Media Technology (Stanford, 2008), her only other book in English.

"Vismann's work has been received with rare enthusiasm—yet this volume opens a further, still-to-be-discovered dimension of her thought. These essays unfold her radical rethinking of law, archives, sovereignty, and the material technologies of power. Indispensable for cultural studies, media studies, political philosophy, history, and postcolonial and critical theory."—Claus Pias, Leuphana University"The essays collected here cover many of the fields and themes of Vismann's pathbreaking work. An excellent introduction, even easier to access than her other books."—Rudiger Campe, Yale University

• Introduction Cornelia Vismann, Critical Legal Studies, and German Media Theory—Anthony Enns PART 1. On Rome1. Inescapable Rome2. Word for Word : Translation and Law3. Time of Files4. Sources5. Cursing in Stone: Teiorum Dirae—Teian CursesPART 2. Administration: According to the Files6. Governing Techniques Around 1550–77: On Elisabeth of Brandenburg (1510–1558)7. Autobiography and File InspectionPART 3. Media and Cultural Techniques8. St. Benedict, Inc.: On the Legality of Community9. Action Writing: On Orality in Law10. Genealogical Order and Asexual ReproductionNotesIndex