Cop Shows & Althusser's Law (was Re: surplus and other stuff)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Paul Rosenberg wrote:
>the top of my list is cop shows: "Homicide,
>Life on the Street" and "Law & Order".  Both shows DO consistently
>question the nature of law, justice, morality, power, and their own
>roles, as well as that of the system they serve. (William Kunstler even
>appeared as himself on "Law & Order" about a year before he died.)

Cop shows interpellate us not by making cops lovable but by askig us to
frame our questions in terms of 'innocence' and 'guilt.' This is so even
when these terms are 'deconstructed' by plots, characters, acting, dialog,
etc.

Yoshie