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Journal Article
'Do You Really Need That?': Legal Thinking and the Law of Necessity in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
2022
Overview
Despite initial appearances of an absence of legality, fiction set in these worlds envisages alternate roles for the law, whereby principles of natural law and natural justice become more prominent. In French (and for that matter, German), one can speak of a particular loi (in German, gesetz) that applies to a particular situation, for example the loi that says that you must hold a valid driver's licence in order to operate a car. Kieran Tranter treats law in science fiction slightly separately to issues of justice instead focusing on 'technical legality' by which he means 'law's responses to technology, the multiple calls for regulation, rights, and code' (Tranter 2018: 2). Even when considering the post-apocalyptic Mad Max films, Tranter looks at the primacy of the humanautomobile hybrid in that world and the 'technical laws facilitating the instruments of licensing and registration, policing, risk allocation, road construction and maintenance, urban planning, consumer and safety standards [which] give form and life to the human-automobile' (183).
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Science Fiction Foundation
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