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ItemThe subject of the law(Local Consumption Publications, 1987)This paper is part of a larger piece of work on juridical discourse in which I try to elaborate a general description of the discursive and interdiscursive structures of the law and to specify some of the central doctrinal categories of contemporary law. The category of legal subject has an exemplary status in such a project for a number of reasons: it is constructed, in historically differential ways, through a diversity of overlapping positions in legal and para-legal practices and languages; it covers both human and non-human entities; it. is formed in direct relation to the juridical/economic concept of property; and it is closely linked, as both foundation and effect, to the philosophical category of subject. My account here is necessarily cursory, but it should be apparent that it has implications, in part, for the broader debate that has taken place in recent years around the concept of the subject.
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ItemA semiotics of the token economy(Local Consumption Publications, 1985)Too hasty a reading of Donzelot and Castel would suggest that their analysis can be directly applied to Australia. In at least one important respect this is not the case. The most powerful component of the Australian psy-complex is not psychoanalysis but behavioural psychology, an intellectual system at once grossly banal and extraordinarily influential as the basis of techniques of surveillance (and self-surveillance) and social control. It is the virtually uncontested orthodoxy in tertiary institutions and in professional and paraprofessional practice. In this paper I examine a behaviour modification programme used in a Perth prison (a 'treatment and research centre') for adolescent girls.
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ItemReading as system and as practice(Cambridge University Press, 1983)My concern in this paper is with the elaboration of a Marxist theory of reading, and this reminder of the many and often contradictory roles of the god is intended to serve as a warning against the confusion of determinacy with determinism or the setting of interpretative sanctions.