Böcker av Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

Our Distance Became Water is the debut novel of Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, author of the acclaimed short story collection Book of Water.

Book of Water is a collection of short stories about desire, fear, life, care, and ecological anxiety, all narrated through the physical and metaphysical presence of water.

Offering a transdisciplinary approach to environmental law, its principles, mechanics and context, as tested in its application to the urban environment, this book traces the conceptual and material absence of communication between the human and the natural.

Presents a critical description and a performative inversion of the theory of legal autopoiesis as developed by the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann. This book introduces this theory in terms of society at large and the legal system specifically. It reveals the aporetic structure of autopoiesis. It operates as a critical response to autopoiesis.