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31	Tolerated illegality and intolerable legality: from legal philosophy to critique Plyley, Kathryn 26 April 2018 (has links) This project uses Michel Foucault’s underdeveloped notion of “tolerated illegality” as a departure point for two converging inquiries. The first analyzes, and then critiques, dominant legal logics and values. This part argues that traditional legal philosophers exhibit a “disagreement without difference,” generally concurring that legal certainty and predictability enhance agency. Subsequently, this section critiques “formal legal” logic by linking it to science envy (specifically the desire for certainty and predictability), and highlighting its agency- limiting effects (e.g. the violence of law en-force-ment). The second part examines multiple dimensions of tolerated illegality, exploring the permutations of this complex socio-legal phenomenon. Here the implications of tolerated illegality are mapped across different domains, ranging from the dispossession of Indigenous peoples of their lands, to the latent ideologies embedded in superhero shows. This section also examines the idea of liberal “tolerance,” as well as the themes of power, domination, politics, bureaucracy, and authority. Ultimately, this project demonstrates that it is illuminating to study legality and (tolerated) illegality in tandem because although analyses of “formal legality” provide helpful analytical texture, the polymorphous and entangled nature of tolerated illegality makes clear just how restricted and artificial strict analyses of legality can be. / Graduate tolerated illegality legality rule of law socio-legal critique Indigenous resurgence power relations toleration superheroes law and film law and television critical legal thought Michel Foucault Lon Fuller Wendy Brown tolerance legal philosophy Antigone The Wire gap studies scientism in law Indigenous dispossession law and order neoliberalism legal certainty and predictability bureaucracy Daredevil
32	Both temple and tomb: difference, desire and death in the sculptures of the Royal museum of central Africa Morris, Wendy Ann 30 November 2003 (has links) Both Temple and Tomb is a dissertation in two parts. The first part is an examination and analysis of a collection of 'colonial' sculptures on permanent display in the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren Belgium. The second part is a reflection on the author's own paintings, drawings and film and an examination of the critical potential of these images in challenging the colonial narratives of the RMCA. Part I presents two arguments. The first is that European aesthetic codes have been used to legitimize the conquest of the Congo and to award sanction to a voyeuristic gaze. The second is that the organization of the sculptures of Africans (and European females) into carefully managed spaces and relationships results in the creation of erotically-charged formations that are intended to afford pleasure to male European spectators. Part II examines the strategies used in Re-Turning the Shadows to disrupt (neo)colonial patterns of viewing that have become ritual and 'naturalized'. Against RMCA narratives that pay homage to the objectivity of science and research, the paintings and film present images that explore multiple subjectivities, mythologizing impulses, and metaphoric allusions. / Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology / M.A. (Visual Arts) Ethnographic museums Colonizing space and time Sanctioned eroticism Voyeuristic gaze Benevolence Noble Savages Absent metaphors of violence Cannibal consumption Insurgent aesthetics Critical potential of visual images 709.68 Morris, Wendy Ann Re-Turning the Shadows Art, Colonial -- Africa -- Exhibition Art and society Desire in art Death in art

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Tolerated illegality and intolerable legality: from legal philosophy to critique

Both temple and tomb: difference, desire and death in the sculptures of the Royal museum of central Africa