ABSTRACT
This chapter traces the connections between maps as a technology of jurisdiction that institutes a demand not to 'go beyond', whilst at the same time being a limited form of knowing. It considers the way the interactions of words and images in the comics medium can be seen to reflect high-stakes ideological tensions over the presentation of knowledge. The chapter focuses on the unconscious infinity embedded in the encounter with images – an infinite ineffability that is also embedded in the visual dimension of text, and thus the form of law, opening up to possibilities of re-imagining law as multimodal. Law is a particular form of ordering the world that produces concrete effects in the shaping of human life, delineating membership of the nomos as well as acceptable behaviours and relations with others. Law's texts are infused with the dreaming, haunted by the unconscious.
