REMEDYING: Philosophical, Legal, and Future Heritage Perspectives on Transformative Remedies—Remedial Transformation

Peer-revied chapter by Lisa Stuckey
In: Uncertain Curiosity in Artistic Research, Philosophy, Media and Cultural Studies: Transforming Understanding—Understanding Transformation, eds. Lisa Stuckey and Alexander Damianisch. Cham: Springer, 2025, 127–138.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-91995-4_12 (Open Access, free download)

Abstract: The concept of remedies and the practice of remedying are explored from philosophical, legal, and future heritage perspectives. These perspectives serve to assess the potential for transformative remedies and remedial transformation in the context of crises and their aftermaths, where establishing causality and proportionality is complex or hardly possible. Structured around eight key concerns—(1) Renaturation as a Remedy for the Near Future, (2) Deadly Cultural Heritage and Remedy Management, (3) Speculative Remedies in Deep Time, (4) “Atomic Priesthood” as Pharmakon-Remedy, (5) For Every Right a Remedy?, (6) Remedies to “Minimize the Inconvenience” and the Inconvenient Curiosity Drive, (7) Time Travel as Curative Remedy to Change History, and (8) Remedying Through More-Than-Human Entities—this contribution delves into the spectrum of ir/remediability, questioning conceptions of judicial remedies through considerations of a broader and multilayered conception of remedies, linked to non- and more-than-human approaches to time, witnessing, and reparation.

Keywords: Atomic priesthood · Curiosity drive · Dark heritage · Deep time · Judicial remedies · More-than-human entities · Non/human witnessing · Pharmakon · Remediability · Speculative science fiction