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The only way of entering the world of ‘fragmented law’ (or ‘societal constitutionalism’) is arguably to make normative fragmentation correspond with constituent excess. As Foucault would say, once we are involved in an ‘epistemic crisis’, we must then modify those systems that organise knowledge in conjunction with the very forms that produce it. This contribution considers some privileged forms of critique and reconstruction beyond normative fragmentation and essentially argues in favour of governance dynamics, as well as for ontological devices engaged in the production of subjectivity.
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See D. Sciulli, Corporate Power in Civil Society: An Application of Societal Constitutionalism (New York: New York University Press, 2001), and G. Teubner, “Societal Constitutionalism: Alternatives to State-Centred Theory”, in C. Joerges, I-J. Sand and G. Teubner, eds, Transnational Governance & Constitutionalism (Oxford: Hart, 2004).
See, for example, G. Teubner, ed., Global Bukowina: Law Without a State (Dartmouth: Aldershot, 1997) and “Societal Constitutionalism”, supra n. 1.
G. Teubner, La cultura del diritto nell’epoca della globalizzazione. L’emergere delle costituzioni civili (Roma: Armando, 2005).
G. Teubner, “La matrice anonima. Quando ‘privati’ attori transnazionali violano i diritti dell’uomo”, in Rivista critica del diritto private 26 (2006) 9–37.
By ‘systems theory’ I mean the theory of autopoietic systems as promulgated by Niklas Luhmann (for an introduction see Soziale Systeme: Grundiss einer Allgemeinen Theorie (Frankfurt Am Main: Suhrkamp, 1988) and, more recently and with particular reference to law, Gunther Teubner. For an introduction see Autopoietic Law: A New Approach To Law & Society (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1988).
M. Hardt and A. Negri, The Labour of Dionysos (Minneapolis, Minnesota U.P., 1996); A. Negri, Fabrique de porcelaine (Paris, 2006).
Hardt and Negri, ibid, at 114–115, 147–148.
R. Esposito, Communitas: Origine e destino della comunità (Torino: Einaudi, 1998); G. Agamben, Homo Sacer. Il potere sovrano e la nuda vita (Torino: Einaudi, 1995).
J. Ravel, Dictionnaire Foucault (Ellipses, 2007).
A. Badiou, L’Être et l’événement (Paris: Seuil, 1988).
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Negri, A. Philosophy of Law Against Sovereignty: New Excesses, Old Fragmentations. Law Critique 19, 335–343 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-008-9037-7
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