Benjamin Goh
Biographic Data
| ID | 5579929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Goh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Goh |
| SIGNATURE | GOH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8109-1132 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Planetary Gifts of Law and Literature
What remains of European thought in law and literature's "global turn"?To address the question, this article reopens Nuruddin Farah's Gifts (1993) alongside modern and contemporary writings on globalization, cosmopolitanism, and their (de)constitutive medial conditions.Scholarship in law and literature, comparative literature, and world literature are first reviewed for their disclosed risks and potentials of attending to postcolonial literature …
Potential Legal History in the Art of Sonny Liew
This article reads Sonny Liew’s graphic novel The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (2015) as an expression and interlocutor of Ariella Aïsha Azoulay’s method of potential history. Thinking alongside Walter Benjamin’s media theory and philosophy of history, Azoulay reconceives the camera shutter as a material apparatus that executes the imperial violence of expelling, and making obsolete, the past from the present in the name of progress. Azoulay’s c…
Dream of the Legal Monograph
This article returns to a law and literature classic, Peter Goodrich’s Oedipus Lex (1995), for its contribution to the field’s ongoing reorientation to the materials and media of law. Read alongside Sigmund Freud’s “Dream of the Botanical Monograph” (1899/1900) and in terms of the psychoanalytic dream-work, Goodrich’s book holds out a vital promise for text- and media-oriented studies in law and literature
A Glocal History of Post-independence Singapore’s First Sex Education Curriculum, 1966-1973
Most studies of sex education center on local Anglo-Euro-American contexts, tracing the origin of sex education to a coordinated response to the spread of venereal diseases. These neglect the circumstances in which sex education developed in the developing world between the 1950s and 1980s: a growing collective anxiety about rising birth rates that culminated in the adoption of population control measures. This paper examines the “glocal” history…
Postcolonial temporality of J. M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986)
This article considers the temporality of J. M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986) for what it suggests about the demands of authorship and copyright in the postcolonial present. By close reading the novel alongside some salient commentaries and intertexts, we attend to the interval between the postcolonial novel and its early modern predecessor Robinson Crusoe (1719), and suggest how the works could be so reread as to displace the limits of proprietary author…
From Paratexts to Print Machinery
This article seeks to decentre the proprietary author in copyright law by attending to some peripheral matters of Immanuel Kant’s periodical essay, ‘On the Wrongfulness of Reprinting’ (1785), as indices of its medial-material conditions of possibility. We consider not only the epitextual background of the German Enlightenment in which the Berlinische Monatsschrift was produced, but also the peritextual specimens of catchwords, signature marks, an…
Two Ways of Looking at a Printed Book
This article revisits a recent debate in copyright scholarship surrounding the dominant utilitarian‐proprietary approach to copyright and its limits as identified by three readers of Immanuel Kant's 1785 essay, ‘On the Wrongfulness of Reprinting’. It is argued that although these scholars have demonstrated the power of Kant's essay and its concept of the book as communicative act to reshape our understanding of authorship and copyright, they have…
Biomedia
This article suggests that media theory could lend some vocabularies with which to map the technical infrastructures of life. Focusing on the digital production of life, we read Marshall McLuhan’s concept of media alongside ‘Smithereens’, the second episode of the fifth instalment of the Netflix digital television series Black Mirror
A Glocal History of Post-independence Singapore’s First Sex Education Curriculum, 1966-1973
Most studies of sex education center on local Anglo-Euro-American contexts, tracing the origin of sex education to a coordinated response to the spread of venereal diseases. These neglect the circumstances in which sex education developed in the developing world between the 1950s and 1980s: a growing collective anxiety about rising birth rates that culminated in the adoption of population control measures. This paper examines the “glocal” history…
Biomedia
This article suggests that media theory could lend some vocabularies with which to map the technical infrastructures of life. Focusing on the digital production of life, we read Marshall McLuhan’s concept of media alongside ‘Smithereens’, the second episode of the fifth instalment of the Netflix digital television series Black Mirror
Two Ways of Looking at a Printed Book
This article revisits a recent debate in copyright scholarship surrounding the dominant utilitarian‐proprietary approach to copyright and its limits as identified by three readers of Immanuel Kant's 1785 essay, ‘On the Wrongfulness of Reprinting’. It is argued that although these scholars have demonstrated the power of Kant's essay and its concept of the book as communicative act to reshape our understanding of authorship and copyright, they have…
Postcolonial temporality of J. M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986)
This article considers the temporality of J. M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986) for what it suggests about the demands of authorship and copyright in the postcolonial present. By close reading the novel alongside some salient commentaries and intertexts, we attend to the interval between the postcolonial novel and its early modern predecessor Robinson Crusoe (1719), and suggest how the works could be so reread as to displace the limits of proprietary author…
From Paratexts to Print Machinery
This article seeks to decentre the proprietary author in copyright law by attending to some peripheral matters of Immanuel Kant’s periodical essay, ‘On the Wrongfulness of Reprinting’ (1785), as indices of its medial-material conditions of possibility. We consider not only the epitextual background of the German Enlightenment in which the Berlinische Monatsschrift was produced, but also the peritextual specimens of catchwords, signature marks, an…
Dream of the Legal Monograph
This article returns to a law and literature classic, Peter Goodrich’s Oedipus Lex (1995), for its contribution to the field’s ongoing reorientation to the materials and media of law. Read alongside Sigmund Freud’s “Dream of the Botanical Monograph” (1899/1900) and in terms of the psychoanalytic dream-work, Goodrich’s book holds out a vital promise for text- and media-oriented studies in law and literature
A Glocal History of Post-independence Singapore’s First Sex Education Curriculum, 1966-1973
Most studies of sex education center on local Anglo-Euro-American contexts, tracing the origin of sex education to a coordinated response to the spread of venereal diseases. These neglect the circumstances in which sex education developed in the developing world between the 1950s and 1980s: a growing collective anxiety about rising birth rates that culminated in the adoption of population control measures. This paper examines the “glocal” history…
Planetary Gifts of Law and Literature
What remains of European thought in law and literature's "global turn"?To address the question, this article reopens Nuruddin Farah's Gifts (1993) alongside modern and contemporary writings on globalization, cosmopolitanism, and their (de)constitutive medial conditions.Scholarship in law and literature, comparative literature, and world literature are first reviewed for their disclosed risks and potentials of attending to postcolonial literature …
Potential Legal History in the Art of Sonny Liew
This article reads Sonny Liew’s graphic novel The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (2015) as an expression and interlocutor of Ariella Aïsha Azoulay’s method of potential history. Thinking alongside Walter Benjamin’s media theory and philosophy of history, Azoulay reconceives the camera shutter as a material apparatus that executes the imperial violence of expelling, and making obsolete, the past from the present in the name of progress. Azoulay’s c…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law in Society and Culture (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works)