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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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AI, law and (anti)fascism
- 2022
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Ingår i: Critical Legal Conference.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Taking que from Maria Hlavajova and Wietske Maas (eds) Propositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent this stream asks about the figuration of law and fascism embedded in the posthuman condition: What, where, how, and why do we need to attend to fascism in our everyday lives as living with the law? Why look to present iterations of fascism in emerging technologies which we, as already more-than-human, or humans +, are entangled with when state fascism from the past and present still haunts present democratic forms of governance? Specifically, the stream invites critical assessments of the relations between AI, law and (anti) fascism. How is fascism part of the posthuman legal condition and, conversely, how does anti-fascism take form as part of it? The stream takes as its starting position an understanding of (micro-) fascism in the posthuman condition as follows: Fascism is immanent to desiring-production: fascism "seems to come from the outside, but it finds its energy right at the heart of everyone's desire." (Guattari 1995: 245). Fascism is everywhere and to desire is to activate it in some measure at different scales within a microphysics of power relations. Fascism is not merely a historical phenomenon (with German, Italian and Spanish varieties) that has passed away and will never happen again; it is not outside, that is, retrievable and renewable like a complete artifact, in that respect. This is one of many ways in which to consider fascism in the posthuman condition.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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AI, samhällskontraktet och demokrati
- 2022
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Ingår i: KEFU-dagen, Lunds universitet.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Denna keynote ger en inblick i hur AI och liknande "nya teknologier" förändrar samhället, hur detta påverkar vem eller vad som deltar i samhället och ingår i "samhällskontraktet", samt hur vi från olika forsknings- och samhälleliga demokratiska perspektiv kan belysa de utmaningar som förändringarna innebär.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Artificial Intelligence, War, Law
- 2018
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Ingår i: Conferance panel at the Law & Soceity Association Annual Meeting, 7-10 June, Toronto 2018: CRN23 International Law & Politics.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Convenor: Dr Matilda Arvidsson Chair: Dr Markus Gunneflo Discussant: Dr Ioannis Kalpouzos This panel session is dedicated to inquiring into the converging fields of artificial intelligence, war and law. Bringing together international humanitarian, intellectual property, posthumanist and feminist legal thinking the panel aims to bring forth new questions, better descriptions, and above all an opportunity to think together about our lives and deaths in and with contemporary war and law. Panel participants: Professor Gregor Noll: Assessing Lawfulness in AI-Human Interaction under the Laws of War Dr Merima Bruncevic: The Dark Web and AI – a question of jurisdiction and legal subjectivity Dr Matilda Arvidsson: Posthumanitarian International Law and Practice of War Professor Kristin Bergtora Sandvik: Technology, dead male bodies and the politics of feminist recognition: theorizing the gendered logic of algorithmic protection and targeting Dr Jannice Käll: Coping with artificial intelligence at war- the potential of new materialist jurisprudence
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Att queera universitetet
- 2018
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Ingår i: HBTQ på universitetet.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Vad innebär det att "queera" och hur queerar vi universitetet inifrån och tillsammans i allians: studenter och universitetspersonal? Detta föredrag ger grunderna för hur vi tillsammans kan genomlysa universitetets många delar från queera perspektiv.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976, et al.
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Eating, meat, catastrophe : Stream, Critical Legal Conference, Warwick 1-3 September 2017
- 2017
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Ingår i: Critical Legal Conference 2017 Stream, Warwick 1-3 September 2017..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Human life depends on and is sustained by the death and consummation of others. Unless we eat something or someone we cannot live ourselves. Yet, we divide over what, how, and who to eat. This stream asks us to consider how our eating of others (plants, human-, and non-human animals) sustains our standing in a global legal-political order of gendered speciesism. Through technology of eating, we imperviously transform living entities into objects for us to eat, while simultaneously disclosing (sexual) politics of our eating (Adams, 2015). You are what you eat as Han Kang’s The Vegetarian (2009) solicitously portrays. Consuming is not simply an ethical choice but also a profoundly ontological one, or as Stanescu suggests ‘a perpetual process of self-metamorphosis’ (2012, 39). Part of such a process is to define what constitutes meat – is ‘meatless’ in vitro meat (IVM), promising animal liberation and cleaner environment, meat? (Stephens, 2013) – and devouring others. But does constant boundary-work risk to turn us into a standing-reserve of future consumption (Heidegger, 1977: 27), of us turning into cannibals ready to mutilate and enslave (Engle, 1992: 1519)? Would cannibal veganism amount to greater realization of rights of both consumed and consumer or into a catastrophic collapse of our relationship with Nature and the animal-in-us (Viveiros de Castro 2014 & Sutton 2017)? Taking the overall theme of the conference ‘catastrophe’ to mean the life-producing, slow, everyday event of being through the death of others this stream asks if what, how, and whom we eat may tell us something important about our moral and legal standing.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Exercising the right authority during belligerent occupation: The Authority of the Coalition Provisional Authority of occupied Iraq : 2018 Annual Convention of ISA, Roundtable theme: Legitimate authority in just war theory and international law. Convenor: Pål Wrange
- 2018
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Ingår i: International Studies Association (ISA) Annuam Convention 2018, San Fransisco.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the wake of the Iraq war the US-UK headed Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) was set up to govern Iraq for the duration of the occupation. Although it is not an obligation under the international law of belligerent occupation to set up a separate administrative body for governance during occupation it is, as Yoram Dinstein puts it, ‘a sensible step’. Resulting from a largely functional approach to governance during occupation the legal and political configuration of the CPA raised a number of fundamental questions regarding the sources of its authority to exercise judicial, legislative, and executive authority in Iraq for the duration of the occupation. While it is clear that ‘coalition’ refers to the shared responsibilities of the two countries heading the occupation – the US and the UK – and ‘provisional’ refers to the temporal aspect of governance, it is less clear what ‘authority’ denotes in the given context. Previous research on the CPA has focused primarily on the failure of success and the legality of the largely transformative CPA legal acts, reviewing these as exceeding what the international law of belligerent occupation permits an occupying power to do. My contribution to this discussion is a shift in focus from this particular kind of ‘legality’ (as only refereeing to the contemporary IHL framework) to instead consider the authority exercised by the CPA within the broader context of right and legitimate authority. To this effect I ask what kind of provisional authority the CPA exercised in Iraq, on which grounds, pursuant to which criteria, and to what ends?
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Feminist legal scholarship’s turn to posthumanism, AI and technology: Hélène Cixous’ écriture feminine in contemporary feminist legal scholarship
- 2022
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Ingår i: The Forgotten Foundations of Feminist Legal Scholarship. Part I: 1970-1985.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper considers Hélène Cixous’ écriture feminine (‘writing feminine’) in contemporary feminist legal scholarship, and especially its relation to the turn to feminist posthumanism, AI and technology. To write one self through écriture feminine is a feminist act in contestation to the ‘phallocentric’ search for the law’s (phallo-)‘originary first term or logos’. The article discusses the importance of ‘writing one self’ as legal scholars in our own time, and how this is and can be done in computer code as well as in other forms of writing in legal scholarship. Legal scholarship has often considered Cixous’ work in the context of ‘the linguistic turn’ – a turn that has been out of vogue for some time now. Hence, Cixous’ écriture feminine is rarely explicitly referred to as part of contemporary feminist legal scholarship. In this article, however, I show that Cixous’ scholarship, and her écriture feminine, is central to contemporary feminist legal scholarship in its turn to feminist posthumanism, AI and technology: The feminist tradition of écriture feminine continues to interrupt the phallocentric predatory imperative embedded in the world, regardless of ‘turns’ and ‘vouges’.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976, et al.
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International Law and Posthuman Theory
- 2022
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Ingår i: Law and Society Association Global Meeting 2022.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This panel brings together voices from across the field of international law, bringing to the fore how posthuman theory can be used to better understand and tackle some of the challenges that contemporary international law and is facing. From international taxation to human rights and beyond, our concern is with questioning fundamental principles and conceptions of the Anthropocene, late capitalism, and the role of the human in a posthuman world.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Invited speech: From Posthumanitarian Targeting Practices to an International Posthumanitarian Law: Rethinking Law, Gender and the Human through Posthumanist Feminist Theory and Contemporary Intelligent Warfare Technologies
- 2018
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Ingår i: Invited speech, University of Technology Sydney the Feminist Legal Research Group and the International Law Research Cluster.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Focusing on targeting practices in contemporary intelligent warfare, this talk brings international humanitarian legal scholarship into conversation with posthumanist feminist theory for the purpose of rethinking international humanitarian law (IHL) in terms of the posthuman condition. In the talk, traditional IHL targeting doctrine is explicated as hinging on stable gender dichotomies (male/combatant – female/civilian) whereas contemporary intelligent warfare, in contrast and in practice, concerns itself with the ‘posthuman’ or more-than-human converging material and digital ‘targetable’ body. Moreover, the practice of targeting in contemporary intelligent warfare is explained as carried out by similarly converging material human-machine and human-artificial intelligence entities (including drones, and practices of Big Data collection and neuro-enhancement). The latter bringing to the fore new questions and concerns of human/non-human accountability in warfare. In considering these posthuman intelligent warfare targeting practices and new ways of imagining ethical and legal norms of responsibility in the posthuman condition I argue that posthumanist feminist theory – in particular Rosi Braidotti’s scholarship – is useful. Her scholarship avails us of a much-needed critical position from which to reframe the question of the ‘human’ in ‘humanitarian’ international law, practice, and in terms of legal accountability. The aim of the talk is to bring to the fore the potentials and possibilities in thinking posthuman feminist ontology as a basis of a posthumanitarian international law and as a basis for relational accountability in posthuman intelligent warfare.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976, et al.
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Law and Disorder in the Postcolony? Law, Missionaries, and the Utopias of Pre-colonial to Present-day Kongo DRC
- 2022
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Ingår i: Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 2022.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Our panel turns to history to understand challenges to law and order in the present; examining the present-day ‘failed state’ of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Drawing on unique archival material, centring on the activities of Mission Covenant Church of Sweden (Svenska Missionskyrkan) in lower Congo, 1881–1961, we take on the well-established thesis that ‘disorder’ in the contemporary ‘postcolony’ flows from how the introduction of law and order was pursued during the pre-colonial and colonial era. In this panel Christian and Global North contributions towards the establishment of the Rule of Law, as well as the international legal interests and investments, in contemporary Congo DRC are examined through critical international legal, social-anthropological, and historical trajectories.
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