A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Subjecthood in Cyberspace and the Uncanny Valley of International Law
Authors: Korhonen Outi, Bruncevic Merima, Arvidsson Matilda
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
Publication year: 2023
Journal: Nordic Journal of International Law
Journal acronym: NJIL
Volume: 92
Issue: 1
First page : 138
Last page: 169
eISSN: 1571-8107
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15718107-bja10058
Web address : https://brill.com/view/journals/nord/92/1/article-p138_007.xml
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In this article the authors build on Masahiro Mori’s 1970s essay “The Uncanny Valley”, psychoanalysis and critical legal pluralism, to analyse how the uncanny in international law is exposed through law’s encounter with the a-human, non-human and morethan-human phenomena challenging legal subjecthood in cyberspace. Discussing autonomous decision-making, dwellers and encounters in international law’s uncanny valley the article proposes that international law needs to cater to a spectrum of nonhuman subjectivities, entities, laws and normativities. In short, international law needs to ‘get over itself’ and its constant anxiety in the face of the plurality of laws and Others.
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