The view from the river: a legal psychogeography of the posthuman

“Whether legal geography will ever embrace an object-oriented post-humanism to any significant extent (and thus dwell upon the relationship between Latour’s chairs and tables rather than upon their co-option– alongside the texts and officials he glimpsed at work there– in essentially human projects) remains to be seen. Yet there are challenging and interesting projects if we expand legal geography scenes, working with affective geographies of matter and understanding legal practices as embedded (and embedding).” Luke Bennett & Antonia Layard (2015) ‘Legal geography: becoming spatial detectives’, Geography Compass 9(7): 406-422, p419 The point of these ‘view from’ mini-essays is to look for the specific roots and features of my take upon legal geography, and in particular to capture the role of biography, contingency, journeying and being-in-the-world (that being – essentially – the ‘psychogeographic’ bit) in the development of my legal psychogeographic orientation. In her review of…