Spectres of Law: Reading List

 

  • Agamben, Giorgio. State of Exception. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

  • Agamben, Giorgio, “On the Uses and Disadvantages of Living among Specters.” Nudities, translated by David Kishik and Stefan Pedatella, 37 - 42. Redwood, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011. 

  • Benjamin, Walter. “Critique of Violence.” In Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings. Manchester UK: Manchester University Press, 2018.

  • Dayan, Colin. The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011.

  • Derrida, Jacques. “The Force of Law.” In Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice, edited by Drucilla Cornell, Michell Rosenfeld, and David Gray Carlson, 3–67. New York, NY: Routledge, 1993.

  • Derrida, Jacques and Bernard Stiegler, “Spectrographies,” in Echographies of Television: Filmed Interviews, trans. Jennifer Bajorek.  Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006. 

  • Gordon, Avery. Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 

  • Farley, Anthony P. “Perfecting Slavery.” Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 36, no. 1 (2005): 225–56.

  • Hartman, Saidiya. Scenes of Subjection Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America. New York, N: Oxford University Press, 1997. 

  • Hartman, Saidiya. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route. Farrar. Straus and Giroux, 2007.

  • Marriott, David. Whither Fanon?. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018.

  • Park, Linnette. “The Eternal Captive in Contemporary "Lynching" Arrests: On the Uncanny and the Complex of Law's Perversion” Theory and Event 22, no. 3 (2019): 674-698.

  • Reichman, Ravit. The Affective Life of Law: Legal Modernism and the Literary Imagination. Redwood, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009.

  • Rochelle, Safiyah. "This Is What It Looks Like: Searching for Law's Afterlife in Guantánamo." Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 13, no. 3 (2022): 381-401.

  • Wilderson, Frank B. III. Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.