What are the implications of comics for law? Tackling this question, On Comics and Legal Aesthetics explores the epistemological dimensions of comics and the way this once-maligned medium can help think about #65533; and reshape #65533; the form of law. Traversing comics, critical, and cultural legal studies, it seeks to enrich the theorisation of comics with a critical aesthetics that expands its value and significance for law, as well as knowledge more generally. It argues that comics#65533; multimodality #65533; their hybrid structure, which represents a meeting point of text, image, reason, and aesthetics #65533; opens understanding of the limits of law#65533;s rational texts by shifting between multiple frames and modes of presentation. Comics thereby exposes the way all forms of knowledge are shaped out of an unstructured universe, becoming a mask over this chaotic #65533;beyond#65533;. This mask of knowing remains haunted #65533; by that which it can never fully capture or represent. Comics thus models knowledge as an infinity of nested frames haunted by the chaos without structure. In such a model, the multiple aspects of law become one region of a vast and bottomless cascade of perspectives #65533; an infinite multiframe that extends far beyond the traditional confines of the comics page, rendering law boundless.

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