Elena Loizidou
Birkbeck, University of London
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Punishment & Society | 2004
Elena Loizidou
This article sets out to question the relationship between criminal law, punishment and prohibition. The argument is made that criminal law is not founded upon prohibitive grounds but rather on permissive grounds. Criminal law does not operate as a set of prohibitive rules, whereby the rule breaker is punished, but rather as a system that is indexed by permission and particularly by the slogan ‘enjoy without restraints!’ If criminal law is viewed in this way, it can be read as a manual of citizenship. The article articulates this reading through the use of psychoanalytic myths. The aim is to open up a space whereby one can articulate and criticize the wider project in which criminal law is engaged, one whereby it creates the conditions for citizenship.
Journal for Cultural Research | 2004
Elena Loizidou
The notion of the subject and its formation has long been at the centre of discussion in critical theory. Identity discourse constructed a passive subject made up of qualities such us gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity and age. Poststructuralist thought on the other hand invested its critical mind in producing a mobile subject, one that is both the product and the producer of practices, power and processes. While identity discourse put qualities such as “sex” at the centre of its analysis of subject formation and produced a sexual subject, poststructuralist thought emphasised “bodies and pleasure” and produced the subject as sexual. This article addresses the formation of the subject as sexual through an everyday practice that forms a dominant part of our contemporary computerised era, namely that of the opening of an e‐mail. It reads the effects of the “Love Bug”, the e‐mail that infected millions of computer systems on the 4th of May 2000, so as to assess the extent it produces a different subject sexual than the one already promoted in poststructuralist thought. Butler’s notion of “gender performativity” (a dominant concept in relation to the subject as sexual) and her allegory of the melancholic drag queen are evaluated through Žižek’s critique and the example of the “Love Bug” e‐mail. This produces a different reading of the subject as sexual: one that understands sexual pleasure as being at the foundations of subject formation.
The Liverpool Law Review | 2001
Elena Loizidou
This paper asks the question; is a poetic response to law and suffering legitimate? It reflects upon Robert Duncans poem Persephone and imagines the (dis)connections between law, literature and poetry. It muses upon the “Trauma” of the poem and the “wound” considered in the context of both public and private law and considers the politics of sentimentality, dominant within the political agenda of the 21st century. The article uses the poem as a lens which reveals that the law fails to address the question of suffering as the wound of the poem is used by the poet as a pedagogical argument to teach us about loss.
Law and Critique | 1999
Elena Loizidou
This article offers a re-reading of Goodrich’s essay, ‘Law in the Courts of Love’. My contention here is that the idiom of love that Goodrich provides us with in this essay cannot address the complexity of sexuality and sexual politics that inhabit our contemporary ‘technoscientific’ culture. In so doing, I will juxtapose his essay with Laven Berlant and Michael Warner’s essay, ‘Public Sex’. This article will be divided into three sections. In the first section, I will evaluate and review Goodrich’s genealogical approach to law and the image of justice that arises out of his approach. The second section will be a re-reading of Goodrich’s ‘Law in the Courts of Love’ through feminist and technoscientific discourses. Its aim is to problematise and re-think not only the idiom of feminine justice that Goodrich offers, but also to question the presuppositions upon which his work is based, primary presuppositions surrounding issues of privacy, sexuality and sexuated rights. Finally, in the third section I will conclude by suggesting that the re-figuration of justice necessitates a re-figuration of the relationship that law has with time and space.
Archive | 2010
Elena Loizidou
Feminist Legal Studies | 1999
Elena Loizidou
The Australian Feminist Law Journal | 2008
Elena Loizidou
Cultural Values | 2000
Imogen Tyler; Elena Loizidou
The Australian Feminist Law Journal | 2008
Elena Loizidou; Sara Ramshaw
Archive | 2017
Elena Loizidou