Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on the text -- Dedication -- 1 Theoretical variables - an overview -- Introduction -- New legal imaginaries -- Aesthetics -- Crisis of subjectivity -- Materiality -- Plurality -- Conceptual dynamism -- Prefigurative law and theory -- 2 Limited and unlimited law -- Introduction -- Restricted and unrestricted legal theory -- Brighton rock law -- Historical and cultural exclusions -- Beyond law as reified subject -- Lawspace -- Vertical and horizontal -- Is and ought -- The norm -- Defining 'law' -- 3 Legal materialism and social existence -- Introduction -- Law's abstractions -- The real, the material, and the socio-legal -- Postmodernism and materialism -- 4 A new legal materialism -- Introduction -- Thinking and things -- Creating subjects and objects -- Intra-actions -- Humans as beings -- Materialism and law -- Legal bodies in spacetime -- 5 Inner and outer space -- Introduction -- Headscape -- Lawspace -- Beyond inside and out -- Being-in not being-and -- 6 Scales of law -- Introduction -- Satellite and street views -- The geographical notion of scale -- Law defined through space -- Jurisdiction and scale in positive law -- 7 Subjects and perspective -- Introduction -- The legal theorist as an expert knower -- Subjective knowers in legal philosophy -- Fractured subjects and plural laws -- Differently situated law construction -- Posthuman agents -- 8 Imagining law -- Introduction -- Metaphors and meaning -- 'A moderate amount of cacophany' -- Boundaries -- Mapping legal landscapes -- 9 Pathfinding -- Introduction -- The way of the law -- Beaten tracks -- Performing law -- 10 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index