Seeking the Principles of Power and Danger

Title slide for the talk. The Third Legitimation Code Theory Conference  (#LCT3 on twitter) is coming up this year and I have submitted a paper co-authored with Shi Chunxu   ( who runs the LCT Research Group in China  & works on legal discourse with LCT and Systemic Functional Linguistics).  We have a couple of manuscripts in the works - so hopfully they will be published soon.  For now here is the abstract for our conference paper: Title :  Knowledge and Rhetoric:  A Specialization Analysis of Courtroom Argumentation Abstract : Legal cultures grounded on abstract principles or rhetorical appeals to moral feelings would seem to be diametrically opposed.  Yet, in courtroom argumentation, there is a balance between interpreting events with legal statutes; and moral evaluations of character and intentions (Shi, 2017). The mix of epistemic and social elements suggests a problem: what is the basis of legitimation in courtroom argumentati...

I did some digging and I found a series of old essays I wrote during High School and just after published on the che-lives.com e-zine (i.e. a blog, but we were going for a digital analog of zines put out by activists and anarchist collectives).  One of the last ones, " The Concepts of Alienation and Surplus value, A brief look ", was my first or second sociology essay for Open Foundation at Newcastle Uni (alternative pathway into Uni). I seemed to have liked situationlists,  Cyril Smith , and Non-leninist Marxists.  Here is my ealiest collection, under the pseudonym euripidies. And here is a second collection, later, under the name Monty Cantsin.