Law Thinkers Definitions

The Law (n.) produces ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠and then conceals the notion of 'subject before the law'.

Law (n.) with ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠only one instance of application is no law at all: Antigone's law is a law of the instant, formulated through the singular case it governs.

The Law (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠performatively given, by 'It is the law!', the very force it is said to have — a sign of the desire for the law to be indisputable.

Law (n.) beyond ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠laws is a limit we cling to, symptomatically, as the final defeat of our own power — a cure for the anxiety of a critique that doesn't know when to stop.

Law (n.) obeyed ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠is always blind to the other law broken at that instant: follow the divine and you break the human; follow the human and you break the divine.

The Law (n.) reproduces ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the very excess it seeks to contain when, as public law, it opposes the unpublishable condition of its own emergence.