ABSTRACT

This chapter attempts to pay a little more attention to images and their roles in philosophy. It offers an account of what work images do in philosophizing and in philosophical texts. The chapter focuses on images to examine some of the contributions Zenon Bankowski has made to the philosophy of law. In the early 1980s, Bankowski was still a self-proclaimed anarchist, but already by then this was an anarchism that had matured over the years. Law helps to construct the automatic man necessary for the automatic production processes of modern capitalism. The reference to democratization of governance, and to the importance of the 'participation of all actors, direct and indirect, from the community' again illustrates just how serious and responsible was Bankowski's anarchism. One finds, computers and their programming codes, and these appear frequently whenever there is a discussion of what it means to live under rules.