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In her 2019 book I The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism i , Jessica Whyte investigates 'the historical and conceptual relations between human rights and neoliberalism'.[1] To undertake this investigation, Whyte returns to the 1940s to trace the way in which the post-war neoliberal thinkers of the Mont Pèlerin Society "mobilised and developed"[2] a language of human rights as a way to serve their own ends. But what was really important was that they didn't just conceptualise human rights in individualistic terms; they made an argument that human rights were not natural rights, that human rights actually had only emerged on the basis of liberal market capitalism and therefore if liberal markets disappeared, human rights would disappear too. B SP: b It's interesting that at no point do you say that human rights is I necessarily i a companion to power, but ... maybe we can come back to that question at the end, as to whether human rights can be redeemed or not ... because I think there are some quite interesting political insights in the book, which bode ill for supporters of human rights. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the author's view concerning the criminalization of photography in the age of digital reproduction in New South Wales. The author cites the incident where Rex Dupain's camera was confiscated for re-creating his father Max Dupain's iconic photographs of Bondi Beach through proliferation of photographic technologies in the age of digital reproduction. She then mentions that arrays of laws relating to the taking and distribution of photographs are already made in the country, which also include surveillance devices, stalking and classification. In addition, the author suggests that the issue should be scrunitized to prevent the erosion of privacy in the particular age.

The article investigates the relationship between crisis, law and revolution in the U.S. It explains that crisis are the real challenges and not techniques for legal rule that brought by active subjects who participate in the emergency. Meanwhile, Adam Bandt elaborates the mobilization of creative laboring subjects are necessary to bring the real states emergency and to depose law's relationship to force to suspend the neoliberal business. Meanwhile, former President Benjamin Franklin considers that the non-violent revolutionary strike can not suspend the law's mediation of social relations.