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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.
Democracy is the apparent motor of globalization, binding together
ideas and institutions such as citizenship, human rights, race, the
free market, multiculturalism, development, politics and the
economy. This book looks to overturn this dogma and demonstrate
that 'liberal' democracy in fact encrypts and naturalizes the
horrors of capitalism and of coloniality, while denying true or
radical democracy, principally through constitutions and
constitutional theory. Ricardo Sanin-Restrepo turns to the
colonized, the marginalized, the creolized, and creates two novel
concepts of politics, the "hidden people" and the "decryption of
power" to reach a politics through and of radical democracy. The
book shows that democracy is the only space of proper politics and
the essential opposition of colonization and power as potestas.
Sanin-Restrepo connects post-structuralism, subaltern studies,
critical legal studies, de-colonial studies and Caribbean thought
to muster the necessary theoretical tools to propose new grounds to
decrypt the semblance of democracy that is liberalism and thus to
demonstrate that democracy, far from being the standardized rule of
the majority, a simple process or an institution, is the true being
in the world and of the world.
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.
Democracy is the apparent motor of globalization, binding together
ideas and institutions such as citizenship, human rights, race, the
free market, multiculturalism, development, politics and the
economy. This book looks to overturn this dogma and demonstrate
that 'liberal' democracy in fact encrypts and naturalizes the
horrors of capitalism and of coloniality, while denying true or
radical democracy, principally through constitutions and
constitutional theory. Ricardo Sanin-Restrepo turns to the
colonized, the marginalized, the creolized, and creates two novel
concepts of politics, the "hidden people" and the "decryption of
power" to reach a politics through and of radical democracy. The
book shows that democracy is the only space of proper politics and
the essential opposition of colonization and power as potestas.
Sanin-Restrepo connects post-structuralism, subaltern studies,
critical legal studies, de-colonial studies and Caribbean thought
to muster the necessary theoretical tools to propose new grounds to
decrypt the semblance of democracy that is liberalism and thus to
demonstrate that democracy, far from being the standardized rule of
the majority, a simple process or an institution, is the true being
in the world and of the world.
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