Science Fiction as Legal Imaginary
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 20. July 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-032-53483-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines how science fiction informs the legal imagination of technological futures.
Science fiction, the contributors to this book argue, is a storehouse of images, tropes, concepts and memes that inform the legal imagination of the future, and in doing so generate impetus for change. Specifically, the contributors examine how science fictions imagine human life in space, in the digital and as formed and negotiated by corporations. They then connect this imaginary to how law should be understood in the present and changed for the future. Across the chapters, there is an urgent sense of the need for law - as it is has been, and as it might become - to order and safeguard the future for a multiplicity of vulnerable entities.
This book will appeal to scholars and students with interests in law and technology, legal theory, cultural legal studies and law and the humanities.
Science fiction, the contributors to this book argue, is a storehouse of images, tropes, concepts and memes that inform the legal imagination of the future, and in doing so generate impetus for change. Specifically, the contributors examine how science fictions imagine human life in space, in the digital and as formed and negotiated by corporations. They then connect this imaginary to how law should be understood in the present and changed for the future. Across the chapters, there is an urgent sense of the need for law - as it is has been, and as it might become - to order and safeguard the future for a multiplicity of vulnerable entities.
This book will appeal to scholars and students with interests in law and technology, legal theory, cultural legal studies and law and the humanities.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate
Illustrations
1 s/w Photographie bzw. Rasterbild, 1 s/w Abbildung
1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-032-53483-1 (9781032534831)
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Alex Green | Mitchell Travis | Kieran Tranter
Science Fiction as Legal Imaginary
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Alex Green | Mitchell Travis | Kieran Tranter
Science Fiction as Legal Imaginary
E-Book
11/2024
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Persons
Alex Green is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of York, UK.
Mitchell Travis is Director of the Centre for Law and Social Justice at the University of Leeds, UK.
Kieran Tranter is Chair of Law, Technology and Future at the School of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Mitchell Travis is Director of the Centre for Law and Social Justice at the University of Leeds, UK.
Kieran Tranter is Chair of Law, Technology and Future at the School of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Content
1. The legal imaginary and science fiction Alex Green, Mitchell Travis and Kieran Tranter Part I: Law of Space(s) 2. Towards an impossible polis: Legal imagination and state continuity Alex Green 3. Playing Loki? International law, decision-making and inter-temporality through the Marvel multiverse Kritika Sharma 4. Life on the front line: The lives of child soldiers in Neon Genesis Evangelion Emily Muir 5. Science fiction and interstellar rights and institutions Erika Techera, Renae Barker and Meredith Blake 6. International law in outer space: Protecting against 'evil' corporate actors Stacey Henderson and Melissa de Zwart 7. Society is just people, and the law is just their club rules: What utopian science fiction can teach us about legal vulnerability and exploitation in off-world human settlements Evie Kendal Part II: Dealing with the Digital 8. Artificial intelligences and legal persons as rule of law subjects in the lifecycle of software objects Paul Burgess and Daniel Chia Matallana 9. AI Capone, or the criminal masterminds of the future: The imagined possibilities of malevolent artificial intelligence with an emphasis on money laundering Georgios Pavlidis 10. Analysing the portrayal of AI and the law-making process in science fiction: A comparative study of Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics and Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Yeliz Figen Doeker and Habibe Deniz Seval 11. Science fiction, science and fiction of and for algorithmic agents in law AM Waltermann 12. Buying and selling the Metaverse: Science fiction speculation, modern technologies and digital data economies Katie Szilagyi and Christina Fawcett Part III: We are Borg: Imagining the Corporate Form 13. Political theology, 1001 cars long: Emblems of corporate sovereignty in Netflix's Snowpiercer Timothy D Peters and Thomas Giddens 14. The spatio-legality of corporate sovereignty in AppleTV+'s Severance Dhiraj Nainani 15. Merging AI technology with the corporate form: Purpose, personhood and data in 'Autofac' Jordan Aleksander Belor