Dear friends and colleagues,
as you may have heard, this year’s Critical Legal Conference is organised by Utrecht University, 10-12 September 2010.
The keynote speaker is Gunther Teubner. This gives me the requisite courage and audacity to launch a stream on Critical Autopoiesis. I am organising it together with Lyana Francot-Timmermans, the conference co-organiser, and it would be excellent if you could participate. Please send any expression of interest to either me or Lyana at l.francot@uu.nl.
I am attaching the stream blurb below – please feel free to disseminate and suggest interested parties.
Critical Autopoiesis
The recent increase in attempts at reading Niklas Luhmann’s autopoietic systems theory from different perspectives demonstrates the capacity of the theory to come into productive dialogue with theoretical strands that at least prima facie would be considered incompatible. This stream invites perspectives or readings that will push autopoietic limits and bring forth the theory’s relevance to contemporary society. Hence, Critical Autopoiesis is the autopoietic practice that is at home with deconstruction, gender studies, geography, psychoanalysis, radical ethics, postecologism, deleuzian jurisprudence, radical politics, or indeed radical autopoiesis itself –namely, readings of the theory that reach the limits of self-referentiality and establish a critical space within the theory from which observations about the theory’s identity, topology and future can be produced. Critical Autopoiesis brings forth issues such as the connection of law to justice, legitimacy and constitutionalism, legal decisions and regulation, dedifferentiation and hybrid normativity, global legal centre and periphery, contextualisation and politics, polycontexturality and value conflicts, legal rights and identity politics. Papers are invited on the above and other topics that will help expand the remit of autopoietic theory in radical critical directions.
Dr Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
Reader in Law
You can download my research on my SSRN page:
http://ssrn.com/author=959502
The Westminster International Law and Theory Centre,
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