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Author:   Daniela Gandorfer
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.572kg
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9781478029472

ISBN 10:   1478029471
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   10 March 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix 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

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“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, Judicial Uses of Images: Vision in Decision “Matterphorics 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, Arts of the Border: Fugitive Bodies at Europe's Edge

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Daniela Gandorfer is Lecturer of Law at the University of Westminster and coeditor of Research Handbook on Law and Literature.

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