"Matterphorics reimagines law and legal thought as non-representational, conceptualizing it as a dynamic entanglement of matter, thought, and emergent normativities, while advancing a legal theory attuned to the complexities of frontier spaces. Drawing on process philosophy and developed through matterphorics-a synaesethics of sense-making-it examines case studies ranging from Felix Baumgartners stratospheric fall and Friedrich Schillers diver to Dogecoins volatility, cryonic hopes, and the legalities of states of matter. Situated in frontier spaces such as outer space, the Arctic, metaverses, and crypto-economies, these inquiries reveal the indeterminacies and material complicities that underlie legal concepts and governance systems, while tracing the conditions for the emergence of novel legal thought. Timely in its response to planetary crises and technological transformations, Matterphorics offers a toolbox for collaboratively creating legal concepts that resist centralizing tendencies, affirm difference, embrace multiplicity, and matter differently. Neither critique nor conclusion, Daniela Gandorfer has produced a beginners guide to law as a participatory practice, one that creatively engages with the indeterminacies of frontier spaces to critically fosters new modes of relational governance and critical concepting"-- Provided by publisher.
Matterphorics : On the Laws of Theory