Unconditional Life : the postwar International law settlement / Yoriko Otomo.
2016
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Author
Title
Unconditional Life : the postwar International law settlement / Yoriko Otomo.
Published
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Call Number
K487.T4 O88 2016
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780198733812 (hbk.)
019873381X (hbk.)
019873381X (hbk.)
Description
xii, 198 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)943701854
Summary
"Drawing on philosophy, history, and critical theory, Unconditional Life introduces a new perspective on the significance of post-war international law developments. The book examines the public discourse regarding technological risk in World War II texts of unconditional surrender, in the World Trade Organization's EC-Biotech dispute, and in the International Court of Justices' Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion. The volume describes international law in terms of its management of, and relation to, the risks associated with technological innovation in war and in trade. It proposes that international law, too, is itself a kind of technology: one intended to manage the material and existential risks inherent in the creation of a new international, postcolonial, political community emerging out of the Second World War. Members of this community are imagined to possess a universal quality: humanness, which itself is underscored by a power of invention. Yoriko Otomo demonstrates how international lawyers' inability to adjudicate questions of large-scale technological risk is due to the competing and intractable claims of international law. Offering a feminist analysis of the political economy that has created this crisis of governance, the book provides a way of understanding the structural inequities that will need to be addressed if international law is to remain a relevant forum for the adjudication of war and trade into the 21st century."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-181) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1
1.
Reading International Law
9
1.1.
International Law's Crisis of Authority as a Problem of Metaphysics
10
1.2.
International Law's Crisis of Judgment as a Problem of Aesthetics
17
1.3.
International Law's End of Virtue as a Problem of Ethics
19
2.
Risk, Technology, and the State
21
2.1.
Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion
22
2.1.1.
determination of proportionality
30
2.1.2.
Nuclear weapons vs international law
32
2.1.3.
future of the world at the feet of the Court
34
2.2.
Liberator Oilseed Rape (Food): The WTO EC--Biotech Case
39
2.2.1.
To `accept but not consider'
41
2.2.2.
Risk assessment and the SPS Agreement
43
2.2.3.
Undue delays
46
3.
Where the Danger Is, Grows the Saving Power Also
49
3.1.
Question Concerning Technology
49
3.1.1.
Martin Heidegger's technology: making the human by representing the world
55
3.1.2.
Bernard Stiegler's technology: the invention of humanness
59
3.1.3.
International law as technology
62
3.2.
Question Concerning the Human
63
3.2.1.
Luce Irigaray's human: the indivisible man
64
3.2.2.
Adriana Cavarero's human: the prototype for a gendered state
71
3.2.3.
International law as Ecriture feminine
79
4.
Atomic Age
85
4.1.
Unconditional Surrender
85
4.1.1.
Atlantic Charter
87
4.1.2.
Demand for unconditional surrender: a new world
91
4.1.3.
United Nations Charter
96
4.2.
Lovers' Discourse
98
4.2.1.
Germany's surrender
99
4.2.2.
Japan's surrender
104
4.2.3.
Freedom from fear and freedom from want
114
5.
Unconditional Life
117
5.1.
Further, Faster, Deeper, and Cheaper
118
5.1.1.
democratic evolution and free market miracles
119
5.1.2.
From animal organism to prosthetic god
121
5.1.3.
Ever-accelerating sovereign economies
124
5.2.
Economy of Human Time: Nuclear Weapons and EC--Biotech Revisited
126
5.2.1.
Speed and silence in the Nuclear Weapons case
126
5.2.2.
Time and reproduction in the EC--Biotech case
130
5.2.3.
Fibre-optic desire to liberation speed
132
6.
Human's Bodies
135
6.1.
International Law Futures
135
6.2.
International Law Writing
137
6.3.
Laws of Trade, War, and the Environment
144
Conclusion
153
Epilogue
161
Bibliography
163
Index
183