Ronnie Lippens
Biographic Data
| ID | 1046822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronnie Lippens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronnie |
| FAMILY NAME | Lippens |
| SIGNATURE | LIPPENS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keele University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8980-9222 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Monumental Crisis
In this short contribution reflections are offered on a number of monumental works of art which were all emplaced sometime during the last 25 years in post-industrial locations in the UK that are marked by decades of urban decline, i.e. Stoke-on-Trent or North Staffordshire (the location of the 24th Roundtables), Gateshead-Newcastle and the North East of England, and Merseyside in the North West. The works of art, it will be argued, can be seen a…
The Line of Anxiety
Withdrawing (from) waste, and the end of law
An often heard phrase these days is “There is something about this chaotic 21st century of ours ...”. This “something”, it is argued here, lies at the heart of a new form of life which has become predominant in recent decades in globalizing culture: the life of aspiring, radicalizing sovereigns. This “something”, then, could the called the end of Law. In an age of aspiring and radicalizing sovereigns the Law, indeed law in all its forms and shape…
In the Zone of Pure Potential
In 1970 the Dutch philosopher and psychiatrist Jan Hendrik van den Berg announced the end of classical psychoanalysis. In an age without taboos, the mere idea no longer made sense to van den Berg. In the same year Mark Rothko’s stark Chapel in Houston, Texas, was completed at the point in the painter’s life when he had exhausted his experimental attempts to visualize sovereign, superhuman life. Both events are not completely unrelated. Both mark …
Angels, warriors, and beacons
National or local authorities regularly commission artists to build or construct sculptures and artworks destined for a place in a public space. Some of those sculptures and artworks are monumentally huge. Positioned in the open landscape, they are visible from a considerable distance. This contribution focuses on three such sculptures in the United Kingdom. The first, “Angel of the North,” was completed in 1998 and is standing at Gateshead in th…
Ambivalent Sovereigns and Restorative Justice
Radical sovereignty and control society
In this contribution it is argued that the late Paul Rebeyrolle’s (1926–2005) painting Le Cyclope (1987) subtly weaves together two images of sovereignty (conceived here as ‘control over emergence’), producing a third which expresses a vision of sovereignty as grounded in creative capacity. In Rebeyrolle’s Le Cyclope, control over emergence is achieved in and through creation. As such this French painter’s work attempts to show a way out of the p…
Control Over Emergence
Crime, Governance and Existential Predicaments
This collection focuses on the existential predicaments and choices that underpin current debates and developments in the governance of crime and criminal justice and argues for the relevance of exist
A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Studying Criminology
This is the book that criminology students have been waiting for. Written in a lively & conversational style, it introduces & familiarizes students with a set of basic notions which are essential to the study of crime & its control
Whither Critical Criminology? A Contemplation on Existential Hybridization
Judging the Image
Tracing the Legal Boundary between Empire and Multitude
Since its publication in 2000, Hardt and Negri's book Empire has been at the centre of significant debates within international relations (IR) and international law (IL) communities, both academic and other. Hardt and Negri's recently published Multitude (2004) is likely to add momentum to these debates. Outlining the importance of both Multitude and Empire for legal scholarship and practice, this contribution sets out to give a brief overview of…
Moving Images, Ethics and Justice
When the call for justice comes through the grief-stricken plea of the mother of a murdered child, it carries a potent affective charge, levying an unassailable demand for our concern and commanding urgent action. Today we are regularly confronted with images of suffering and vengeful crime victims. What kind of response can be envisioned as just? This article stages some encounters arising from press photographs of mothers bereaved by violent ac…
The Imaginary of Zapatista punishment and justice
The Imaginary of Zapatista Punishment and Justice
This essay presents a reconstruction of the Zapatista imaginary of justice and punishment. The Zapatistas of Mexico are known for their use of images - including the new media like the Internet - to ‘publicize’ their cause, and have been described as the ‘first postmodern revolutionaries’. My reading of the Zapatista sensuous imaginary produces a notion of justice as an interstitial zone of negotiation, which diverges from any understanding of ne…
Policing as Forestry? Re-Imagining Policing in Belgium
This article has two aims. First, it argues that social and political change, to a large extent, occurs and develops within the boundaries of the imaginary - the realm of ‘visibilities’, of affect, of the senses and of emotion. ‘Visibilities’, images and imageries often offer the bounding backdrop on, or within, which discursive or symbolic formations of social and political change occur and develop. This article also situates the ongoing debates…
Negotiating Humanity
What I want you to understand is that dialogue is one thing and negotiation is another. Subcomandante Marcos One may arguably distinguish four models by which communicating alternatives--or to use Lieve Gies's phrase, (1)--has been theorized, or perhaps we should say, imagined. There is, of course, the way Habermas has imagined it. (2) With his model of communicative ethics as reasonably argued practical discourse (the origin as well as the resul…
City Moves
Books reviewed in this article: Vincenzo Ruggiero, Movements in the city. Conflict in the European metropolis Sophie Body‐Gendrot, The social control of cities? A comparative perspective
A Contingent Conference
Dans le but de montrer comment les evenements academiques tels que les conferences participent de la didactique en renforcant ou en defiant les hegemonies de la connaissance, l'A. s'appuie sur un incident survenu au cours d'une conference feministe pour montrer comment les contingences quotidiennes peuvent (de)structurer les cadres didactiques et pour caracteriser l'imprevisibilite de la vie quotidienne universitaire, l'ambivalence et la non fixi…
Criminology and Righteous Radicalism's Contra/c/p/tions
L'A. examine l'etat de la criminologie moderne et se demande si les buts politiques du postmodernisme s'etendent a la critique marxiste de l'economie politique ou si le postmodernisme n'est rien d'autre qu'un deconstructionnisme bourgeois. L'A. en appelle a des inclusions affirmatives (des voix differentes s'exprimant differemment sur des experiences partagees) et, finalement, s'attaque a l'oppression sous toutes ses formes dans un aspect central…
Alternatives to What Kind of Suffering
This article seeks to imagine a renewed common ground for critical criminologies. In this article, the quest of imagination is developed as an answer to the question: `On what kind of suffering should critical criminologies/ists be concentrating their attention?'. Looking for answers to that question, the paper explores the broad contours of our contemporary era, which is read as a `hypermodern' zone of strategized ambivalence, or ambivalent stra…
Hybrid Hopes Ltd
Dans un style provocateur et ultramoderne, l'A. pousse les frontieres epistemologiques de la criminologie. Quelles sont les limites de la discipline ? Quelles directions peut-elle emprunter pour elle-meme ? Est-elle limitee et independante ou bien est-ce une realite construite, pouvant laisser place a une pratique criminologique plus emancipatrice ? Comment cette liberation peut-elle se realiser a travers le discours, a travers de nouvelles repre…
An Economic Policy Model for Prince Edward Island
Moving Images, Ethics and Justice
When the call for justice comes through the grief-stricken plea of the mother of a murdered child, it carries a potent affective charge, levying an unassailable demand for our concern and commanding urgent action. Today we are regularly confronted with images of suffering and vengeful crime victims. What kind of response can be envisioned as just? This article stages some encounters arising from press photographs of mothers bereaved by violent ac…
Alternatives to What Kind of Suffering
This article seeks to imagine a renewed common ground for critical criminologies. In this article, the quest of imagination is developed as an answer to the question: `On what kind of suffering should critical criminologies/ists be concentrating their attention?'. Looking for answers to that question, the paper explores the broad contours of our contemporary era, which is read as a `hypermodern' zone of strategized ambivalence, or ambivalent stra…
Radical sovereignty and control society
In this contribution it is argued that the late Paul Rebeyrolle’s (1926–2005) painting Le Cyclope (1987) subtly weaves together two images of sovereignty (conceived here as ‘control over emergence’), producing a third which expresses a vision of sovereignty as grounded in creative capacity. In Rebeyrolle’s Le Cyclope, control over emergence is achieved in and through creation. As such this French painter’s work attempts to show a way out of the p…
Hybrid Hopes Ltd
Dans un style provocateur et ultramoderne, l'A. pousse les frontieres epistemologiques de la criminologie. Quelles sont les limites de la discipline ? Quelles directions peut-elle emprunter pour elle-meme ? Est-elle limitee et independante ou bien est-ce une realite construite, pouvant laisser place a une pratique criminologique plus emancipatrice ? Comment cette liberation peut-elle se realiser a travers le discours, a travers de nouvelles repre…
In the Zone of Pure Potential
In 1970 the Dutch philosopher and psychiatrist Jan Hendrik van den Berg announced the end of classical psychoanalysis. In an age without taboos, the mere idea no longer made sense to van den Berg. In the same year Mark Rothko’s stark Chapel in Houston, Texas, was completed at the point in the painter’s life when he had exhausted his experimental attempts to visualize sovereign, superhuman life. Both events are not completely unrelated. Both mark …
Control Over Emergence
Tracing the Legal Boundary between Empire and Multitude
Since its publication in 2000, Hardt and Negri's book Empire has been at the centre of significant debates within international relations (IR) and international law (IL) communities, both academic and other. Hardt and Negri's recently published Multitude (2004) is likely to add momentum to these debates. Outlining the importance of both Multitude and Empire for legal scholarship and practice, this contribution sets out to give a brief overview of…
Policing as Forestry? Re-Imagining Policing in Belgium
This article has two aims. First, it argues that social and political change, to a large extent, occurs and develops within the boundaries of the imaginary - the realm of ‘visibilities’, of affect, of the senses and of emotion. ‘Visibilities’, images and imageries often offer the bounding backdrop on, or within, which discursive or symbolic formations of social and political change occur and develop. This article also situates the ongoing debates…
Negotiating Humanity
What I want you to understand is that dialogue is one thing and negotiation is another. Subcomandante Marcos One may arguably distinguish four models by which communicating alternatives--or to use Lieve Gies's phrase, (1)--has been theorized, or perhaps we should say, imagined. There is, of course, the way Habermas has imagined it. (2) With his model of communicative ethics as reasonably argued practical discourse (the origin as well as the resul…
City Moves
Books reviewed in this article: Vincenzo Ruggiero, Movements in the city. Conflict in the European metropolis Sophie Body‐Gendrot, The social control of cities? A comparative perspective
An Economic Policy Model for Prince Edward Island
Alternatives to What Kind of Suffering
This article seeks to imagine a renewed common ground for critical criminologies. In this article, the quest of imagination is developed as an answer to the question: `On what kind of suffering should critical criminologies/ists be concentrating their attention?'. Looking for answers to that question, the paper explores the broad contours of our contemporary era, which is read as a `hypermodern' zone of strategized ambivalence, or ambivalent stra…
Hybrid Hopes Ltd
Dans un style provocateur et ultramoderne, l'A. pousse les frontieres epistemologiques de la criminologie. Quelles sont les limites de la discipline ? Quelles directions peut-elle emprunter pour elle-meme ? Est-elle limitee et independante ou bien est-ce une realite construite, pouvant laisser place a une pratique criminologique plus emancipatrice ? Comment cette liberation peut-elle se realiser a travers le discours, a travers de nouvelles repre…
Criminology and Righteous Radicalism's Contra/c/p/tions
L'A. examine l'etat de la criminologie moderne et se demande si les buts politiques du postmodernisme s'etendent a la critique marxiste de l'economie politique ou si le postmodernisme n'est rien d'autre qu'un deconstructionnisme bourgeois. L'A. en appelle a des inclusions affirmatives (des voix differentes s'exprimant differemment sur des experiences partagees) et, finalement, s'attaque a l'oppression sous toutes ses formes dans un aspect central…
A Contingent Conference
Dans le but de montrer comment les evenements academiques tels que les conferences participent de la didactique en renforcant ou en defiant les hegemonies de la connaissance, l'A. s'appuie sur un incident survenu au cours d'une conference feministe pour montrer comment les contingences quotidiennes peuvent (de)structurer les cadres didactiques et pour caracteriser l'imprevisibilite de la vie quotidienne universitaire, l'ambivalence et la non fixi…
City Moves
Books reviewed in this article: Vincenzo Ruggiero, Movements in the city. Conflict in the European metropolis Sophie Body‐Gendrot, The social control of cities? A comparative perspective
Policing as Forestry? Re-Imagining Policing in Belgium
This article has two aims. First, it argues that social and political change, to a large extent, occurs and develops within the boundaries of the imaginary - the realm of ‘visibilities’, of affect, of the senses and of emotion. ‘Visibilities’, images and imageries often offer the bounding backdrop on, or within, which discursive or symbolic formations of social and political change occur and develop. This article also situates the ongoing debates…
Negotiating Humanity
What I want you to understand is that dialogue is one thing and negotiation is another. Subcomandante Marcos One may arguably distinguish four models by which communicating alternatives--or to use Lieve Gies's phrase, (1)--has been theorized, or perhaps we should say, imagined. There is, of course, the way Habermas has imagined it. (2) With his model of communicative ethics as reasonably argued practical discourse (the origin as well as the resul…
The Imaginary of Zapatista punishment and justice
The Imaginary of Zapatista Punishment and Justice
This essay presents a reconstruction of the Zapatista imaginary of justice and punishment. The Zapatistas of Mexico are known for their use of images - including the new media like the Internet - to ‘publicize’ their cause, and have been described as the ‘first postmodern revolutionaries’. My reading of the Zapatista sensuous imaginary produces a notion of justice as an interstitial zone of negotiation, which diverges from any understanding of ne…
Moving Images, Ethics and Justice
When the call for justice comes through the grief-stricken plea of the mother of a murdered child, it carries a potent affective charge, levying an unassailable demand for our concern and commanding urgent action. Today we are regularly confronted with images of suffering and vengeful crime victims. What kind of response can be envisioned as just? This article stages some encounters arising from press photographs of mothers bereaved by violent ac…
Tracing the Legal Boundary between Empire and Multitude
Since its publication in 2000, Hardt and Negri's book Empire has been at the centre of significant debates within international relations (IR) and international law (IL) communities, both academic and other. Hardt and Negri's recently published Multitude (2004) is likely to add momentum to these debates. Outlining the importance of both Multitude and Empire for legal scholarship and practice, this contribution sets out to give a brief overview of…
Judging the Image
Whither Critical Criminology? A Contemplation on Existential Hybridization
A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Studying Criminology
This is the book that criminology students have been waiting for. Written in a lively & conversational style, it introduces & familiarizes students with a set of basic notions which are essential to the study of crime & its control
Crime, Governance and Existential Predicaments
This collection focuses on the existential predicaments and choices that underpin current debates and developments in the governance of crime and criminal justice and argues for the relevance of exist
Radical sovereignty and control society
In this contribution it is argued that the late Paul Rebeyrolle’s (1926–2005) painting Le Cyclope (1987) subtly weaves together two images of sovereignty (conceived here as ‘control over emergence’), producing a third which expresses a vision of sovereignty as grounded in creative capacity. In Rebeyrolle’s Le Cyclope, control over emergence is achieved in and through creation. As such this French painter’s work attempts to show a way out of the p…
Control Over Emergence
Ambivalent Sovereigns and Restorative Justice
Angels, warriors, and beacons
National or local authorities regularly commission artists to build or construct sculptures and artworks destined for a place in a public space. Some of those sculptures and artworks are monumentally huge. Positioned in the open landscape, they are visible from a considerable distance. This contribution focuses on three such sculptures in the United Kingdom. The first, “Angel of the North,” was completed in 1998 and is standing at Gateshead in th…
In the Zone of Pure Potential
In 1970 the Dutch philosopher and psychiatrist Jan Hendrik van den Berg announced the end of classical psychoanalysis. In an age without taboos, the mere idea no longer made sense to van den Berg. In the same year Mark Rothko’s stark Chapel in Houston, Texas, was completed at the point in the painter’s life when he had exhausted his experimental attempts to visualize sovereign, superhuman life. Both events are not completely unrelated. Both mark …
Withdrawing (from) waste, and the end of law
An often heard phrase these days is “There is something about this chaotic 21st century of ours ...”. This “something”, it is argued here, lies at the heart of a new form of life which has become predominant in recent decades in globalizing culture: the life of aspiring, radicalizing sovereigns. This “something”, then, could the called the end of Law. In an age of aspiring and radicalizing sovereigns the Law, indeed law in all its forms and shape…
The Line of Anxiety
Monumental Crisis
In this short contribution reflections are offered on a number of monumental works of art which were all emplaced sometime during the last 25 years in post-industrial locations in the UK that are marked by decades of urban decline, i.e. Stoke-on-Trent or North Staffordshire (the location of the 24th Roundtables), Gateshead-Newcastle and the North East of England, and Merseyside in the North West. The works of art, it will be argued, can be seen a…
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