1st Edition

On Comics and Legal Aesthetics Multimodality and the Haunted Mask of Knowing

By Thomas Giddens Copyright 2018
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

What are the implications of comics for law? Tackling this question, On Comics and Legal Aesthetics explores the epistemological dimensions of comics and the way this once-maligned medium can help think about – and reshape – the form of law. Traversing comics, critical, and cultural legal studies, it seeks to enrich the theorisation of comics with a critical aesthetics that expands its value... Read more

1 On Comics and Other Ways of Knowing

Drawing the Frame

Komos and Nomos

2 A Ghostless Machine

Cyborg Aesthetics

Disciplinary Aesthetics

3 The Irrational Threat

Madness and Aesthetics

Headless Lawyers

4 Horrific Jurisprudence

Call of the Cultural-Legal

Judging in the Abyss

5 On Haunted Masks

Masca Lex

Invisible Images

6 Redrawing the Law

Drawing the World

The Haunted Multiframe

Biography

Thomas Giddens is senior lecturer in law at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. He researches critical, comics, and cultural legal studies. He founded the Graphic Justice Research Alliance in 2013 and edited the collection Graphic Justice: Intersections of Comics and Law (Routledge 2015). He also edits the on-going ‘Graphic Justice’ special collection at The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship and is a founding Co-Director of St Mary’s Centre for Law and Culture.