Deleuze and Law: Forensic Futures
summary of Deleuze and Law: Forensic Futures (edited by Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook, and Patrick Hanafin):
Deleuze and Law: Forensic Futures is a provocative collection of essays that brings together legal theory, philosophy, and cultural critique to explore how Gilles Deleuze’s thought can reshape our understanding of law, justice, and power. Edited by Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook, and Patrick Hanafin, the volume argues that law should not be seen merely as a rigid system of rules or as an instrument of authority, but as a dynamic and evolving field of forces, affects, and relations that intersect with life itself. Drawing on Deleuze’s concepts of multiplicity, becoming, deterritorialization, and assemblage, the contributors rethink the foundations of legal theory in ways that move beyond traditional frameworks rooted in sovereignty, identity, and universality. The book examines law in its entanglement with culture, politics, biopower, and globalization, suggesting that legal structures can be sites of both control and resistance, discipline and creativity. In place of law as a static code, the essays imagine “forensic futures,” where justice is understood as an ongoing process of negotiation, transformation, and experimentation that reflects the complexities of contemporary life. Case studies and theoretical reflections span diverse issues such as human rights, postcolonial struggles, gender and sexuality, bioethics, and new technologies, showing how Deleuzian philosophy opens up alternative ways of engaging with the law’s possibilities and limitations. Ultimately, the book positions Deleuze as a thinker of legal futurity, offering a framework in which law is not bound to past authority but is instead re-imagined as a creative, generative practice responsive to the flux and multiplicity of human existence.
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