Author: Peter Goodrich File Type: pdf The history of the legal emblem has not been written. A seemingly fortuitous invention of the humanist lawyer Andrea Alciato in 1531, the emblem book is an extraordinary pictorial turn in the early history of publishing and in the emergence of modern law. The preponderance of juridical and normative themes, of images of rule and infraction, of obedience and error in the emblem books is critical to their purpose and interest. It is no accident that the history of this highly successful scholarly genre is dominated in authorship and content by lawyers. This book is the history of the emblem tradition as a juridical genre, along with the concept of, and training in obiter depicta, in things seen along the way to judgment. It argues that these picture books of law depict norms and abuses in classically derived forms that become the visual standards of governance. Despite the plethora of vivid figures and virtual symbols that define and transmit law, contemporary lawyers are not trained in the critical apprehension of the visible. This book is the first to reconstruct the history of the emblem tradition so as to evidence the extent to which a gallery of images of law already exists and structures how the public realm is displayed, made present, and viewed.

Author: Samo Tomsic File Type: epub A major systematic study of the connection between Marx and Lacans work Despite a resurgence of interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis, particularly in terms of the light it casts on capitalist ideologyas witnessed by the work of Slavoj Zizekthere remain remarkably few systematic accounts of the role of Marx in Lacans work. A major, comprehensive study of the connection between their work, The Capitalist Unconscious resituates Marx in the broader context of Lacans teaching and insists on the capacity of psychoanalysis to reaffirm dialectical and materialist thought. Lacans unorthodox reading of Marx refigured such crucial concepts as alienation, jouissance and the Freudian labour theory of the unconscious. Tracing these developments, Tomsicmaintains that psychoanalysis, structuralism and the critique of political economy participate in the same movement of thought his book shows how to follow this movement through to some of its most important conclusions. **Review Samo Tomsics achievement is to explain how the reference to psychoanalysis is crucial if we are to provide a theoretical framework for a confrontation with the totality of global capitalism. To be a Marxist today, one has to go through Lacan! Slavoj Zizek The first book-length study of Lacans reading of Marx in the English language, filling an almost scandalous gapwhich it does splendidly. It offers many original and most compelling insights into both Marx and Lacan. Alenka Zupancic The Capitalist Unconscious does the simple thing thats so hard to do taking Lacan seriously as a reader of Marx. Against all the confusions and failures that have often characterized attempts to synthesize Freud and Marx, Tomsic argues that we must think the structure of the unconscious and the structure of capitalism together. Benjamin Noys Recognizing the relationship between the unconscious and capitalism, with Tomsics help, will make us better equipped to continue this class struggle. One of the most important books of the year. Alfie Bown, *Hong Kong Review* About the Author Samo Tomsic obtained his PhD in philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. In the past he has worked at the Institute of Philosophy in Ljubljana and at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, and is currently research assistant in the interdisciplinary cluster Image Knowledge Gestaltung at the Humboldt University in Berlin. From the eBook edition.