Zones of Entrapment and Impunity

On the Constitution of Vague and Strange Regimes of Power

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6052575
AutoresSimon Hallsworth (0000-0002-7303-723X, University of Brighton, autor de correspondencia), Svetlana Stephenson (0000-0001-5249-8160, London Metropolitan University)
Año2022
Volumen30
Número3
Páginas665-678
Fecha de publicación2022-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCritical Criminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1205-8629 • E-ISSN: 1572-9877
EditorialSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s10612-022-09641-0
OpenAlexW4282965248
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas16

This article challenges a tendency prominent in critical theory—one that holds that being “vague and strange” constitute qualities of life opposed to the grid-like systems of coercive control intrinsic to the operation of modern power regimes which, by their ascriptive nature, are compelled to suppress all life which exhibits these traits. Consequently, vagueness represents not only the antithesis of modern power, but a source of resistance against it. This article contests this assumption by exploring the vague regimes of power (which, following William Burroughs, we call “interzones”), which also exist within the fabric of the administered order. The article examines how these interzones function and explores two incarnations:zones of entrapmentandzones of impunity

Antithesis · Constitution · Epistemology · Impunity · Law and economics · Physics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vagueness · Law · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics