"The 'corpus' or 'body' of law is a visual image. This is in some tension with the common notion of jurisprudence as 'black letter' or flatly textual. This magnificent new book interrogates that seeming paradox: how does it challenge our notion of governance to acknowledge that law 'appears' as much as it is 'written'? Our fluidly associational apprehension of what Goodrich aptly dubs law's 'relay of optical forms' is worthy of study in an age when consciousness is ever more captured by the ungoverned chatter of photos, videos, and the hieroglyphs of emojis. Goodrich's brilliant-and brilliantly hilarious-account addresses how the assumed frames of law's landscape are both expanded and ruptured by the sensuousness of unruly scopic power." -- Patricia J. Williams, University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities, Northeastern University.