Vasconcelos Vilaça on Law as a Semiotic Time Machine

Guilherme Vasconcelos Vilaça, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Law School, has published "Law as a Semiotic Time Machine." Here is the abstract.

This chapter examines several semiotic dimensions of the relation between law and time. Focusing on Tanpınar's novel The Time Regulation Institute, it emphasizes the interaction between different temporal standards, subjectivities and normative sources, and its role in giving meaning to individual and social life. Given law's powers as a time machine the chapter also discusses political projects that supress time, revealing how categories of collective life depend on certain semiotics of time.

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