Our teachers were wrong, captivated by a picture of a dancing class, ignoring the inseparable unribboning relationship between the motion that law must be and the participant-spectators whose presence makes the motion meaningful. In the work that preceded this Afterword, we follow the body of thought as we might that of a dancer.

XREF: Connects to performance/performativity theory (Butler, Austin) and practice-based accounts of social systems where meaning is co-constructed by actors.

Philip Chase Bobbitt, Philip Chase Bobbitt - Refl…, loc. 485