ABSTRACT
With regard to law, these types of amalgamations expand the reaches of our thinking, as the normative ideas of governance and order present challenges to traditional forms of legal knowledge and actions. In this way, sensory perceptions are interpreted in conjunction with embodied approaches to legal reasoning, legal consciousness, as well as resistance. Such sensory hybridity from a multilayering of contextual approaches, circumstances, and atmospheres stimulates a potentially otherwise linear consciousness concerning law. Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos2 describes the lawscape as “the interfolding” of the material and the immaterial.3 When we synesthetically conceptualize various realms of (im)materialized law and legalities, the resultant social, cultural, and political unions (and disunions) offer creative insight into the complexities of how law works using our bodies, our hands, our ears, our eyes, our noses, and our tongues. In this way, the interpretations of law through sensory perceptions become a type of legal phenomena that is enriched with meaning from enlivened understandings of law in conjunction with sensory input, sensory output, and this sensory overlay. Particulars located in the layers of synesthetic legalities semiotically generate a notion of law that challenges and transforms the legally semiotic beyond the visual to include the spatial, the temporal, the aural, the tangible, the culinary, and the olfactory.
