Tyler Coburn - Richard Roe (Sternberg Press): A Memoir of a Legal Person - Softcover

Tyler Coburn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3956794648 ISBN 13: 9783956794643

Publisher: Sternberg Press, 2019

Synopsis

Richard Roe is the fictional memoir of a legal person. The name is one of the oldest used in English law when the real name of someone is withheld, or when a corpse can't be identified. Richard Roe is a known unknown, a one-size-fits-all, a potentially everyone and actually no one. Divided into seven fragmentary sections, this memoir gives voice to the legal fictions that creep around the margins of selfhood-and that increasingly dictate the terms of economic and political process. It draws on numerous concepts of personhood from legal, psychological, linguistic, and metaphysical realms, including Ancient Roman juridical theory; Medieval writings on materialism; and arguments, of the last two centuries, for the legal personhood of corporations, rivers, and other elements of the natural world.

About this title

About the Author

Tyler Coburn is a writer and artist who lives and works in New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sternberg Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3956794648
• ISBN 13: 9783956794643
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72