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Science Fiction as Legal Imaginary

Author: Alex Green; Mitchell Travis; Kieran Tranter
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032534374
Published In: November 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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.

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 Döker 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