<nettime-ann> Before The Law - Language Property Community Law - A Workshop

["martin hardie" <martin.hardie@gmail.com>]

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Before The Law - Language Property Community Law - A Workshop


INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIOLOGY OF LAW,
OÑATI, GIPUZKOA, EUSKADI, EUROPE.


28 and 29 JUNE 2007. (30 JUNE optional - Basque Country Tour)


BRIEF OUTLINE:

Before The Law will be a two day workshop trying to pick up various
threads of interest concerning the interface of communities, whether
social, linguistic communities and the forms of mediation effected upon
them, or the ways they are put to service by instruments various forms
of law and governance, including logics such as intellectual property
or sovereignty.

Broadly by the term communities we envisage the variety of forms that
they may be produced and conceived of in contemporary times, whether
the cultural or technological, from the indigenous to the virtual.

The workshop seeks to explore mechanisms of mediation such as
intellectual property and sovereignty, the manner in which language and
community are captured by these mechanisms along with alternatives to
them in the global post or supra national form sovereignty emerging in
contemporary times.


SESSIONS

The workshop will consist of 4 substantive sessions along with an
opening and closing session. The preliminary list of speakers includes:

- Anton Schutz, of Birkbeck College, London who will talk on the
subject of vogel frei and homo sacer with a presentation provisionally
entitled, Free as the Birds - Homo Sacer in the times that we live.

- Robert Angus Gosford, Australian National University, Canberra, will
take up the issue of the refrain with his talk on Bird Stories of the
Walpiri People of the Australian Tanami Desert and their organisation
and management of Territory.

- Jamie Murray, Liverpool John Moore University, will speak on the refrain and the coming theory of emergent law.

- Martin Hardie, University of New South Wales, Sydney, will discuss in
the context of the state of exception the criminalisation of
professional cycling, with a presentation provisionally entitled Free
to soar like the birds - and always free to fall in the society of the
specatcle. 

- Jamie King, will address the Great Gnu Pyramid in the context of
Intellectual Property, networked-subjects and distributed cooperation.


CONTRIBUTIONS

Contributions are invited from anyone interested that seek to address
issues concerning, but not limited to, the law in the age in which we
live, and in particular themes such as the 'Refrain', 'societies of
control', 'emergent law', nomos, vogel frei/homo sacer/precarity,
immaterial labour, the state of exception, the positive possibility,
new forms of language and measure, the coming community, their
relevance to the society of the spectacle or their reliance upon logics
of intellectual property and sovereignty.


If you are interested you should contact and send proposals for
presentations or discussion sessions to Martin Hardie,
(martin.hardie@gmail.com) as soon as possible. Formal invitations to
the workshop shall be posted in late January 2007.

For those interested there is also a wiki available to help with planning, organisation and discusssion, it is found at http://auskadi.omweb.org/modules/wakka/OnatiWorkshop

ABOUT THE INSTITUTE AND OÑATI

about the 2007 workshop calendar
http://www.iisj.es/antbuspre.asp?nombre=3245&cod=3245

about the institute
http://www.iisj.es/antBuspre.asp?Cod=1731&Nombre=1731&prt=1

and about Oñati
http://www.iisj.es/antbuspre.asp?nombre=1656&cod=1656
http://www.oinati.org/

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