Republished from Progressive Political Economy: Last year I published an edited volume called Clickbait Capitalism. The title came as a surprise, even to me. The book was meant to be called Libidinal Economies of Contemporary Capitalism. No one was interested in the volume until I changed the title. This surely tells us something about the publishing industry […] The post Clickbait Capitalism – Or, The Return To Libidinal Political Economy appeared first on Critical Legal Thinking ..read more

Philosophical Perspectives from and through the Global South The volume seeks to use the theory of encryption of power (TEP) in a tight connection with the theory of archism to rethink sovereignty in at least the following manners: In this latter case, TEP has held that “power in coloniality depends on one thing alone: the creation of a hidden […] The post CfP: Decrypting Power and Coloniality appeared first on Critical Legal Thinking ..read more

Once Upon a Time in Australia explores the intersections between gender, colonisation, and climate change and how they are necessarily interconnected in any transformative movement for justice. The novel challenges ideas about voice and solidarity, and questions the relationship that the law holds over truth. On 15 March 2021, protesters from around Australia marched in response to government inaction following allegations of sexual […] The post New COUNTERPRESS Publication: Once Upon a Time in Australia: Conversations About How Our Metoo Movement Expose ..read more

Intersections of art, creative practice, copyright, storytelling and technology. December 4th-6th, 2024, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Submissions are being sought for Hacking Visual Culture, a 2-day conference and exhibition hosted by the Faculty of Law and Creative Practice Research Group (Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). This […] The post CfP: Hacking Visual Culture appeared first on Critical Legal Thinking ..read more

This is a call for submissions for abstracts for the Routledge Handbook on AI, Law and Society (forthcoming in the Routledge book series on AI, Law and Society). We are now open for submissions of abstracts. Deadline for abstract: 1 May 2024. After all submissions are reviewed all selected submissions will be asked to proceed […] The post CfP: Routledge Handbook on AI, Law and Society appeared first on Critical Legal Thinking ..read more

A few days ago a discussion developed on Twitter (as these things do) about whether Gaza (and specifically the failure to prevent or halt the ongoing genocide) signals a failure of international law. Many of the responses seemed to be saying a similar thing, mainly, that what we are witnessing is a failure of political […] The post International law and failure in the context of Gaza appeared first on Critical Legal Thinking ..read more

DATE: September 16 – September 18 2024 We live under orders of speculation, where both financial capital and nation-state modes of accounting, or not accounting for, lives and ways of living perpetuate how we come to understand and act in the world. At the same time, such orders of speculation invites the possibility of thinking: what […] The post Critical Legal Conference 2024 : Speculation(s) appeared first on Critical Legal Thinking ..read more

This year sees the launch of two books that exposes the philosophical foundations of the police and how the socio-political idea of the police is crucial to modern world-making. A Philosophical History of Police Power (Bloomsbury) by Melayna Lamb (University of Law) and Everything Is Police (University of Minnesota Press) by Tia Trafford (UCA) demand we reassess the […] The post Book Launch: A Philosophical History of Police Power and Everything Is Police appeared first on Critical Legal Thinking ..read more

Apparently, we might no longer live in the Anthropocene. Such was the result of a formal vote by the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (SQS), issued on the 5th of March 2024, who oversee and administer 4.5 billion years of sedimentary accumulation on Earth. They came to this conclusion through […] The post What was the Anthropocene? appeared first on Critical Legal Thinking ..read more

The law organises its operations in highly visual forms; it carefully curates and cultivates its own scopic regime. From courtroom architecture and rituals to ornate judicial costumes, law relies on images to convey its sovereignty, power, authority, legitimacy, authenticity and majesty. And yet, as scholars have shown, law’s relation with images remains deeply fraught. 2025 […] The post CfP: 100 years of banning cameras in court appeared first on Critical Legal Thinking ..read more