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Providing The Missing Link: Law After Latour’S Passage, Serge Gutwirth

Serge Gutwirth

There are two ways to speak of the law, which, both for jurists and laypersons, coexist like an optical illusion. Either you see the naked young woman, or you see Freud’s profile, and the passage from one view to the other is difficult to grasp or control. Similarly, law is evoked in two modes referring to two distinct significations. On the one hand law is referred to as an intertwined whole of statutes, rules and regulations, and thus, in one word, as norms (or “normativity”), while, on the other hand, it can as well be understood as decision-making or as …