2026· Public Humanities· Vol 2· 0 citations· 20 references
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Fungi offer a striking way to rethink the legal foundations of the Rights of Nature (RoN) movement. While RoN seeks to recognize nature as a rights-bearing subject rather than an object of human use, its legal and philosophical frameworks often remain shaped by human-centered models of subjecthood, embedded in arboreal metaphors of trees and forests. This article argues that these arboreal metaphors reproduce stable identities and hierarchical relations, while fungi foreground interdependence, relationality, and distributed agency that unsettle conventional assumptions about legal subjects. Drawing on key RoN cases and debates in philosophy and legal theory, we show how thinking with fungi helps unbind the subject of law by challenging models of subjectivity that stabilize identities, reinforce hierarchy, and project human exceptionalism onto nature.
This essay aims to propose a theoretical model for legal discourse capable of simultaneously explaining the processes of the emergence of Law and its dialectical relationship with the deep strata of reality. The central hypothesis is that Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), particularly the dialectical-relational approa...
Phablo Freire, P. Santos· Isagoge - Journal of Humanit...· 0 citations
What is on the other side of the agential cut is not separate from us-agential separability is not individuation.Ethics is therefore not about right response to a radically exterior/ized other, but about responsibility and accountability for the lively relationalities of becoming of which we are a part.-KarenBarad, Mee...
Despite its prominence in the history of political thought, the analogy between states and organisms has fallen into disrepute. Evolutionary theory, however, gives reason to reconsider it. The Price equation, a model drawn from theoretical biology, identifies specific conditions that facilitate the transition from a co...
J. Horowitz, A. Schaefer· European Journal of Politica...· 0 citations
What is the relationship between law and capitalism - and what happens when their foundations collide with the climate crisis? In this groundbreaking work, A. Claire Cutler reveals how transnational corporations and the laws that shield them perpetuate environmental destruction while evading accountability. Developing...
The article pursues two interrelated objectives: first, to determine how a political theory that includes nonhuman animals (as specialists refer to all animals other than humans) can be constructed; and second, to demonstrate how those animals who are forcibly concealed may nonetheless exert influence on the ordinary p...
M. Mefed· Philosophical and Literary J...· 0 citations
The present work explores aspects of the nature of legal normativity, approaching the topic from the context of claims about the variety of and interactions among our multiple normativities. The article offers some reflections on the multiplicity of normative systems and normative claims and discusses a number of ways...
B. Bix· Revus· 0 citations
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