ABSTRACT
This conclusion chapter presents an overview of key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book tarries with fictional tales about law and resolved to argue that fictionalisation can serve to make rational authority more than palpable: to make it enjoyable for a range of encounters, to even make it a vocation. The problem for the discourses of human rights is thus how to orient authority to this Human-Thing through the legal machinery of rights rather than an appeal to a natural order or logos of law. Enjoyment is at the centre of law, the core of the subjects who make up its lived existence. But nonetheless these subjects, these interpreters and storytellers of law, are at the edge of law like a penumbra. The chapter tries to shine a light on how law is narrativised and uncover some of the jouissance that stains both the legal and the cultural alike.
