ABSTRACT
The law constitutes matter by naming it, forming it, including or excluding it, arranging its physicality and entering its molecular structure: the law determines property lines, permissible chemical compositions, embryonic biological structures. The law is a fleshy metaphor for Schmitt's line between friends and enemies, a material verbalisation of the vicissitudes of inclusion and exclusion. It is a semantic edifice of such imposing materiality that, wherever one turns, one is enfolded by the law. The law does transform these bodies in ways that are beneficial to them, but likewise often fails to do so, and its lack of response is experienced as failure. The lawscape's temporality is also fractal: the lawscape is based on repetition. It is not taking place until repeated. Lawscaping time requires habit, historicity, links to origin, dissemination, contagion. While lawscape dissipates at its edges, fractally moving along other lawscaping configurations and partaking of other layers of in/visibilisations, atmosphere is enclosure, firm perfection, modernist orgasm.
