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Visualizing Law In The Age Of The Digital Baroque: Arabesques & Entanglements, Richard K. Sherwin
Visualizing Law In The Age Of The Digital Baroque: Arabesques & Entanglements, Richard K. Sherwin
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Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque explores the profound impact that visual digital technologies are having on the practice and theory of law. Today, lawyers, judges, and lay jurors face a vast array of visual evidence and visual argument. From videos documenting crimes and accidents to computer displays of their digital simulation, increasingly, the search for fact-based justice inside the courtroom is becoming an offshoot of visual meaning making. But when law migrates to the screen it lives there as other images do, motivating belief and judgment on the basis of visual delight and unconscious fantasies and …