Synesthetic Legalities: Sensory Dimensions of Law and Jurisprudence

Description

Synesthesia is the phenomenon where sensual perceptions are joined together as a combined experience - that is, the ability to feel color, hear the visual, or even smell emotion. These types of unions expand the normativity of our legal thinking, as the abilities to represent the tethering of emotion, place, and concept to law are magnified. In this way, interpretations of law and legal phenomena that are enriched with embodied meaning contribute to our understanding of how law works - namely through sensory input, sensory output, and the attachment that happens within these sensory unions. This edited volume explores the richly complex manifestations of synesthesia and law drawing from a plurality of approaches, including legal studies, philosophy, social science, linguistics, history, cultural studies, and the humanities. Contributions in the volume discuss how we feel/taste/smell/see/hear law within the synesthetic scope of legal interpretation, legal consciousness, and legal culture. The collection examines aspects of embodiment, place, and presence that constitutively frame law amidst social, cultural, and historical contexts. Cover Title Copyright Contents List of figures and tables Notes on contributors (in alphabetical order) Acknowledgments 1 Exploring layers of law and the sensory at the volcano 2 What legal rules are suitable for protruding media of law and why? Contribution to the concept of locality/non-locality of legal rules 3 From waste management to recycling: Constructing mental health policy in the Kingdom of Tonga 4 What law tastes like: A free conjecture on the palate of juridicity (Menu dégustation en quatre services) 5 How to dance to the law: Engaged embodiment in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right 6 A tale of outsourcing: The enhanced presence and absence of law through the senses 7 “Do not touch”: Prohibitions on touch and the incarcerated female body 8 Deconstruction and bio-politics: Asymmetrical visuality, spacing, power 9 Artistic flash: Sketching the courtroom trial 10 Dependency and care in Peirce’s training of reasoning 11 “Warmth” in justice: (Re)semiotization of “frozen embryo” in the civil case of the four shidu parents 12 The copyright of my sensorimotor experience 13 An incitement to rapey discourse: Blurred lines and the erotics of protest 14 “The map is not the territory”: Thoughts about synesthesia and law Index