Author ORCID Identifier
0000-0003-2066-3963
Abstract
Against the backdrop of modern states’ cadastralization of the sea, this article discusses images of the sea in three texts that are analyzed as figures of resistance to contemporary forms of territorialization: Hugo Grotius’s Mare Liberum [The Free Sea] (1609), Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus (1981), and the South China Sea (SCS) Arbitration Award (2016). It is argued that the recurring images of the sea in these three texts, which may be collectively called “Grotian images of the sea,” constitute a thought that resists states’ territorializing tendencies by grounding legal challenges to excessive claims to the sea. In the time of rising sea levels, these images of the sea allow one to imagine a lege ferenda, an emergent law, based on the sea’s difference in itself.
Recommended Citation
Bagulaya, José Duke
(2025)
"Grotian Images of the Sea in Law and Philosophy,"
Kritika Kultura:
No.
46, Article 11.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13185/1656-152X.2160
Available at:
https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss46/11
