Decrypting Power
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Decrypting Power: (Global Critical Caribbean Thought)


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Decrypting Power aims to reach a unifying concept that allows the connection of the fundamental theses stemming from critical legal studies, Subaltern studies, decolonization, law and society, global political economy, critical geopolitics and theories of de-coloniality. This volume proposes that this concept is the ‘encryption of power’, a category of analysis that reveals the weakness of political liberalism when it takes the place of the legitimate fundament of democracy, as well as its consummate capacity to conceal new mechanisms of global power. The theory of encryption of power understands that there is only a world where difference exists as the fundamental and sole order, but also that such a possibility is heavily obstructed by the concentration of power in forms of oppression. The world hangs on the thread of this entangled reality, made up of difference and its denial, of democracy and its simulations, of truth and its codifications. The decryption of power is then, above all, a theory of justice essential to radical democracy, which comes fully-equipped to prevail over the conditions that deny the possibility of an egalitarian world.

Table of Contents:
Part I: Introduction / Introduction: The Meaning of the Encryption of Power as the Razor's Edge of Politics, Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo / 1. The Encrypted Constitution: New Ways of Emancipation from Global Power, Gabriel Méndez-Hincapíe and Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo / Part II: Encryption Law and Power / 2. The Equivocation that Lies Like Truth, Angus McDonald / 3. Encrypted International Investment Law in the Age of Neo-Colonialism, Enrique Prieto-Rios / 4. Transnational Legal Production and its Encryption, Aleida Hernández-Cervantes / Part III: The Political Subject / 5. The Practices of the Commons Between Decryption and Insurgent Critique, Vito De Lucia / 6. Prohibition as Encryption: International Law and the Invitation into the Crypt of Modernity’s Origin, Kojo Koram / 7. The Symbolic Force and the Encryption of Gender in Law: The Brazilian Example, Marinella Machado Araujo / Part IV: Encryption, Political Theory and Language / 8. Metaphors of Decryption: Designs, Poetics, Collaborations, Hanna Musiol / 9. The People vs. Hegel: The Mystifying Transcendence of Time and the Immanence of Radical Democracy, Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo / Part V: Decryption and Political Action / 10. Polyvalent Anarchism as a Hypothesis to Decrypt the Constitution, Gabriel Méndez-Hincapíe and Felipe Orozco / 11. Grounding Human Rights in Decryption, Alejandro Rosillo / 12. The Field of Popular Power and Transformative Constitutionalism in Venezuela, Heiner Fechner / 13. Decrypting Global Capitalism: Identifying with the Excluded Outcast in the Taiwanese Sunflower Movement, Ted Yao-Hung Huang / Index

About the Author :
Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo is a member of the Caribbean Philosophical Association and a professor of legal and political theory at several institutions across Latin America, including Universidad Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM), Universidad Central de Quito, Universidad San Luis de Potosí (Mexico), PUC Rio de Janeiro, and Universidad Javeriana in Colombia, among others. He is the author of Decolonizing Democracy (RLI, 2016).

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Decrypting Power offers a series of excellent articles on one of the most perplexing concepts that has plagued the left for centuries. From theory to practice, the word power almost always appears in slogans, tracts, and theoretical work. But what is a leftist notion of power? What does it mean to seize power? What does it mean to hold power? How do we distinguish power from force? In these illuminating essays these difficult questions are addressed. The essays are powerfully argued and well written and they are a must read for anyone who takes seriously what it would mean for the left to be in power, whether in the form of the state or other kinds of organization, such as transnational federations or continental communities. Sanín-Restrepo has provided us with a much needed service and we are in his debt. One of the most problematic aspects of critique these days is a fantasy about politics without power. This collection of powerful essays tackles the issue head on. What does it mean for progressive forces and the left to be in power? Power is not some ready-at-hand thing, a mere tool which can be wielded one way or another by progressives and reactionaries. Power institutions not only have a language of their own, but also a code. To participate in them is to engage with both. But if the left is to be in power, as it must, then it must also be ready to hack current institutional technologies, decrypt their code, and harness their performative force in new ceremonials and utopian technologies. Sanín-Restrepo has gifted us with the concepts to do so.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781786615541
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
  • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield International
  • Height: 222 mm
  • No of Pages: 372
  • Series Title: Global Critical Caribbean Thought
  • Weight: 503 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1786615541
  • Publisher Date: 19 May 2020
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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