Justice as Improvisation : the Law of the Extempore.
Justice as Improvisation: The Law of the Extempore theorises the relationship between justice and improvisation through the case of the New York City cabaret laws. Discourses around improvisation often imprison it in a quasi-ethical relationship with the authentic, singular 'other'. The sa...
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: the law of the extempore; 2 The rise and reform of the New York City cabaret laws; 3 Deconstructive legal improvisation; The aporia of singularity; The aporia of originality; The aporia of performative immediacy; The aporia of the extempore; 4 The 'wildness' of jazz improvisation; 'Wild' origins; Bebop's sonic and social wildness; lmprovisation, wildness, invention; 5 Demystifying improvisation; Improvisation and the 'jazz form'; Tradition of improvisation; Collective individuality.
- 6 The structure-freedom paradox in lawThe freedom of precedent; The structure of discretion; The NYC 'police cards' revisited; 7 Justice as improvisation; The necessity of improvisation's impossibility; Ensemble improvisations: democracy and community; The ethical force of improvisation; improvisation as resistant critique; Improvisioning; Notes; Bibliography; Index.