ABSTRACT
Etxabe’s re-creation of the Rancièrian dramaturgy is based on scenes staged by actors who, acting out of the presupposition of equality, undergo processes of subjectivation that reconfigure the ‘sense’ of the common. Building on the police/politics distinction, the chapter proposes a doubling similar for law between a given order of legalism and an antagonistic jurisgenerative impulse that would come to interrupt it. Etxabe tests the practical implications of such dramaturgy in the context of the post-2008 mortgage crisis in Spain. The example shows how law, despite its strong mechanisms to close itself down, can be open to jurisgenesis from within.
