라투르(Latour)의 법적 회합으로서의 사회와 헌정의 구성

This article interprets the December 3, 2024, presidential impeachment protests under martial law as Bruno Latour’s legal association. The Actor-Network Theory, championed by Latour, understands existence as being composed from plasma by human-nonhuman networks, that is, as connections and dependencies, and emphasizes the sensibility of attachment. Following Tarde, he views society as an association, through mediated patiency, beliefs, and desires. Latour understands law as a mode of existence possessing its own ontology. He sees law as superficial, hesitant, and inherently empty, yet progressing through a chain of processes, translating and transforming concerns into legal issues. He admires that law connects almost everything and stabilizes collectives. Unlike conventional legal sociologists who view law as embedded in society, he argues that legal associations themselves constitute society and must follow action. Thus, he focuses on the legal associations of non-legal entities, the legal associations of everyday life. Legal associations can be agonistic political spaces, and our impeachment square was just such a case. Latour proposes moving beyond the dichotomies of society/nature and subject/object, recognizing hybridity and composing a non-modern constitution. He advocates a parliament of things, a politics of things, and a democracy of things, granting representation to things. Ultimately, his argument is to examine things more closely. In our case, too, it is time to pay close concern and careful attention to the new association that will unfold after the impeachment.