INDEX AND NOMOS: A JURIDICO-POLITICAL CONTRIBUTION TO SPECULATIVE REALISM.
In this article, I seek to make a contribution to speculative realism by adding, to the "imperfect coupling" formed by Hilan Bensusan's books Indexicalism and Memory Assemblages, a juridico-political dimension centred on a mythical concept of nomos, drawing mainly from Carl Schmitt and ontological t...
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Ashton & Rafferty
2026
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