David Bowie Outlaw

This book explores the relevance of David Bowie's life and music for contemporary legal and cultural theory. Focusing on the artist and artworks of David Bowie, this book brings to life particular theoretical ideas, creative methodologies and ethical debates that have contemporary relevance within the fields of law, social theory, ethics and art. What unites the essays presented here is that they all point to a beyond of law: to the fact that law is not enough, or to be more precise, too much, too much to bear. For those of us who, like Bowie, see art, creativity and love as what ought to be the central organising principles of life, law will is insufficuent. In the face of its certainties, its rigidities, and its conceits, these essays call forth - through David Bowie - the monster who laughes at the law, who celebrates inauthenticity as a deeper truth, who explores the ethical limits of art, who cuts up the laws of writing, and embraces that which is most antithetical to law, love. This original engagement with the limits of law will appeal to those working in legal theory and law and popular culture, as well as in art and cultural studies.