Peter Goodrich

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An ardent advocate of argute alliterations and the habile silent ‘p’, as in raspberry and rhubarb, Peter Goodrich perturbs the Panglossian portals and protocols of paromoion legalities and other plagiarisms with the pataphysical portents of posthuman sciences and their paromion postulates. A practitioner of widdershins in the circulus disciplinarum, he is author, recently and most compositely, of Advanced Introduction to Law and Literature (Edward Elgar) and the forthcoming Vision and Decision: On the Judicial Uses of Images (Oxford University Press). Chef, filmmaker, and olericulturalist, he is currently working on a project entitled Laugh and Critique.

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Jun 21, 2021 ∙ 21 min

Remediation

The will to transparency, the scopic drive to see through, to scrutinise naked truth, encounters a significant impediment in the dead letters, the literae mortuae, of law. The puppet show of juridical interpretation, the marionettes that are pulled as heavy signifiers, gothic black-letter dogmas from the pickle jar of precedent, perform a spectacle that is always a trope and costume, a stage and screen away from the viewing subject. As the pop philosopher and ‘narcotheorist’ Laurent de Sutter...