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Subjecthood in Cyberspace and the Uncanny Valley of International Law




AuthorsKorhonen Outi, Bruncevic Merima, Arvidsson Matilda

PublisherBrill Nijhoff

Publication year2023

JournalNordic Journal of International Law

Journal acronymNJIL

Volume92

Issue1

First page 138

Last page169

eISSN1571-8107

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1163/15718107-bja10058

Web address https://brill.com/view/journals/nord/92/1/article-p138_007.xml

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/179337314


Abstract

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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