TASTE

Andrea Pavoni · Danilo Mandic · Caterina Nirta · Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

Jul 2018 · Law and the Senses Book 2 · University of Westminster Press

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Taste usually occupies the bottom of the sensorial hierarchy, as the quintessentially hedonistic sense, too close to the animal, the elemental and the corporeal, and for this reason disciplined and moralised. At the same time, taste is indissolubly tied to knowledge. To taste is to discriminate, emit judgement, enter an unstable domain of synaesthetic normativity where the certainty of metaphysical categories begins to crumble. This second title in the ‘Law and the Senses’ series explores law using taste as a conceptual and ontological category able to unsettle legal certainties, and a promising tool whereby to investigate the materiality of law’s relation to the world. For what else is law’s reduction of the world into legal categories, if not law’s ingesting the world by tasting it, and emitting moral and legal judgements accordingly? Through various topics including coffee, wine, craft cider and Japanese knotweed, this volume explores the normativities that shape the way taste is felt and categorised, within and beyond subjective, phenomenological and human dimensions. The result is an original interdisciplinary volume – complete with seven speculative ‘recipes’ – dedicated to a rarely explored intersection, with contributions from artists, legal academics, philosophers, anthropologists and sociologists.

About the author

Dr Andrea Pavoni is Post-doctoral Fellow at DINAMIA’CET, ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal. He completed his PhD at the University of Westminster, London, in 2013. His research explores the relation between materiality and normativity from various transdisciplinary angles and is the author of Controlling Urban Events: Law, Ethics and the Material (2017).

Dr Danilo Mandic is Lecturer in Law at the University of Westminster. His research focuses on copyright law and its relation to technology. His other research interests comprise sound studies, art and law, and media studies.

Dr Caterina Nirta is Senior Lecturer at the University of Roehampton, UK. Her research interests revolve around the body, space and deviance.

Professor Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos is Professor of Law & Theory at the University of Westminster, and Director of The Westminster Law & Theory Lab. He is the author of Absent Environments (2007), Niklas Luhmann: Law, Justice, Society (2010), and Spatial Justice: Body, Lawscape, Atmosphere (2014), as well as editor of several books. His interests are typically interdisciplinary, including space, corporeality, new materialism, and philosophy.

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