Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Law Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

University of Wollongong

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Series

Brought

Publication Year

Articles 1 - 2 of 2

Full-Text Articles in Law

Wittgenstein And Stage-Setting: Being Brought Into The Space Of Reasons, David Simpson Jan 2014

Wittgenstein And Stage-Setting: Being Brought Into The Space Of Reasons, David Simpson

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Wittgenstein constantly invokes teaching, training and learning in his later work. It is there- fore interesting to consider what role these notions play for him there. I argue that their use is central to Wittgenstein’s attempt to refute cognitivist assumptions, and to show how norma- tive practices can be understood without the threat of circularity, grounded not in a kind of seeing, but in doing, and the natural reactions of an organism. This can generate a worry that Wittgenstein’s position is quietist and anti-critical: critique, as a challenge to the taken- for-granted grammar of our language game, is technically meaningless. …


Colonialism Brought Home: On The Colonialization Of The Metropolitan Space, Lorenzo Veracini Jan 2005

Colonialism Brought Home: On The Colonialization Of The Metropolitan Space, Lorenzo Veracini

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Departing from an appraisal of the topical relevance of what Canadian based geographer Derek Gregory has perceptively called 'the colonial present', this article presents a number of departures for an investigation of the ways in which the codes of a colonial conditions have infiltrated the metropolitan west (Gregory 2004). This article suggests a number of possible starting points for further discussion and focuses on an analysis of the long term process of transfer of colonial forms from colony to core and on an appraisal of migrations and their governance as one privileged site for the production and reproduction of coloniality.