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58Playing with Law: Agamben and Derrida on Postjuridical JusticeSouth Atlantic Quarterly 107 (1): 15--36. 2008.
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68Contesting the political: Butler and Foucault on power and resistanceJournal of Political Philosophy 11 (3). 2003.
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10Review of Herman Rapaport, Later Derrida: Reading the Recent Work (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (9). 2003.
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44Images and Emotion in Abortion DebatesAmerican Journal of Bioethics 8 (12): 61-62. 2008.No abstract
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Life beyond Law: Biopolitics, Law and Futurity in Coetzee's 'Life and Times of Michael K'Griffith Law Review 15 (1): 177--195. 2006.JM Coetzee has on several occasions been criticised for his failure to elaborate a political vision of transformation beyond the social and political conditions that he describes in his novels. Focusing on the novel ’Life and Times of Michael K’, I argue that this criticism fails to appreciate the conception of political futurity that is evident in Coetzee’s novels. For there emerges in Michael K a gesture of hope in which turning away from history is the condition of possibility for hope for th…Read more
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36The Philosophy of AgambenRoutledge. 2008.Giorgio Agamben has gained widespread popularity in recent years for his rethinking of radical politics and his approach to metaphysics and language. However, the extraordinary breadth of historical, legal and philosophical sources which contribute to the complexity and depth of Agamben's thinking can also make his work intimidating. Covering the full range of Agamben's work, this critical introduction outlines Agamben's key concerns: metaphysics, language and potentiality, aesthetics and poetic…Read more
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115Reproductive Autonomy as Self-Making: Procreative Liberty and the Practice of Ethical SubjectivityJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 38 (6): 639-656. 2013.In this article, I consider recent debates on the notion of procreative liberty, to argue that reproductive freedom can be understood as a form of positive freedom—that is, the freedom to make oneself according to various ethical and aesthetic principles or values. To make this argument, I draw on Michel Foucault’s later work on ethics. Both adopting and adapting Foucault’s notion of ethics as a practice of the self and of liberty, I argue that reproductive autonomy requires enactment to gain me…Read more
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59Efficacy and Vulnerability: Judith Butler on Reiteration and ResistanceAustralian Feminist Studies 15 (32): 265--279. 2000.
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22Review of Sean Gaston, Derrida and Disinterest (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (11). 2005.
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1Liberal Eugenics, Human Enhancement and the Concept of the NormalIn Darian Meacham (ed.), Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy, Springer Verlag. 2015.
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33A Manner of Speaking: Declaration, Critique and the Trope of InterrogationLaw and Critique 21 (3): 247--260. 2010.In this paper I will argue for the ethical and political virtue of a form of critique associated with the work of Michel Foucault. Foucault’s tryptich of essays on critique---namely ”What is Critique?’ ”What is Revolution?’ and ”What is Enlightenment?’---develop a formulation of critique understood as an attitude or disposition, a kind of relation that one bears to oneself and to the actuality of the present. I suggest that this critical attitude goes hand in hand with a mode of intellectual pra…Read more
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