"The crisis however is not only economic. It is also political and legal, as is clear from the deep legitimacy crisis of representative democracy, and the expulsion of politics from both governments (with so-called “technical governments”) and parliaments (with both ordinary and constitutional rule-making delegated to national and supranational technical bureaucracies). In this state of exception and of suspension of the most basic democratic and institutional mechanics, law presents itself as a form of domination. By renouncing any pretense of legitimation grounded in social and political dynamics and by breaking any link to any form of popular mandate or public interest, law increasingly appears as pure command and as a form of violence."
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 20:00:37 +0000
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