Abstract

[Reflections on affectivity and science fiction starting from Sense8] The article examines the Wachowski sisters’ series Sense8 as a legal-philosophical metaphor for the plurality of identities and the redefinition of the legal subject. Through the lens of Critical Legal Studies and Queer Theory, the series transcends the traditional model of citizenship — rooted in the white, male, Western subject — and instead proposes an “intimate citizenship” (Plummer) grounded in diversity Law, sexuality, difference and interconnectedness. The sensates embody the possibility of a community built on equality-in-difference, echoing Habermas’s deliberative democracy and the “differentiated universalism” theorized by Young and Lister. The analysis, therefore, links the science-fictional representation to contemporary European legal realities, in which new forms of subjectivity and new rights related to gender, sexuality, and affective relationships are emerging.