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Biografisk notat
Daniela Gandorfer is Lecturer of Law at the University of Westminster and coeditor of Research Handbook on Law and Literature.
“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 <i>Judicial Uses of Images: Vision in Decision</i><br /><br />“<i>Matterphorics</i> 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 <i>Arts of the Border: Fugitive Bodies at Europe's Edge</i>
Introduction. How to Begin? A Guide 1
Part I. Synaesethics of Thought: Doing Theory Matterphorically
1. Thinking-with Matter(s): Unloving Thought, Unfriending Theory 15
2. Metaphor and Nuclear Equations: On the Sunny Side of Theory 27
3. Matterphorics of ?-Human(ism): Theory for Loyal Traitors 37
4. Unreasonable Canons: Laws of Thinking 57
5. Minds Fucking, Making Love: Expansionist Theory 77
Part II. Forces of Law: A Matterphorical Case Study on Man Falling
6. Drinking the Kool Aid Red Bull: A Matterphorical Case Study 99
7. I Am Free, Free Falling 109
8. Home of the Mind: I Am Representing, Therefore I Am 119
9. Under Pressure: Falling Deeper for Power 143
Part III. Cutting-Edge Theory: (Life) Story Telling
10. Matterphorics of Life: An All-Too-Real Story 167
11. When Theory Crashes (Into) Life 173
12. The Right to Narrate (a) Life: Cutting Theories 183
13. Matters of Indeterminacy: Stakes of Concepting 203
Epilogue. A Concept Yet to Come: A Decentralized Right to Breathe 211
Notes 219
Bibliography 261
Index 279
“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 <i>Judicial Uses of Images: Vision in Decision</i><br /><br />“<i>Matterphorics</i> 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 <i>Arts of the Border: Fugitive Bodies at Europe's Edge</i>
Introduction. How to Begin? A Guide 1
Part I. Synaesethics of Thought: Doing Theory Matterphorically
1. Thinking-with Matter(s): Unloving Thought, Unfriending Theory 15
2. Metaphor and Nuclear Equations: On the Sunny Side of Theory 27
3. Matterphorics of ?-Human(ism): Theory for Loyal Traitors 37
4. Unreasonable Canons: Laws of Thinking 57
5. Minds Fucking, Making Love: Expansionist Theory 77
Part II. Forces of Law: A Matterphorical Case Study on Man Falling
6. Drinking the Kool Aid Red Bull: A Matterphorical Case Study 99
7. I Am Free, Free Falling 109
8. Home of the Mind: I Am Representing, Therefore I Am 119
9. Under Pressure: Falling Deeper for Power 143
Part III. Cutting-Edge Theory: (Life) Story Telling
10. Matterphorics of Life: An All-Too-Real Story 167
11. When Theory Crashes (Into) Life 173
12. The Right to Narrate (a) Life: Cutting Theories 183
13. Matters of Indeterminacy: Stakes of Concepting 203
Epilogue. A Concept Yet to Come: A Decentralized Right to Breathe 211
Notes 219
Bibliography 261
Index 279