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.
Part I: Introduction / Introduction: The Meaning of the Encryption of Power as the Razor's Edge of Politics, Ricardo Sanin-Restrepo / 1. The Encrypted Constitution: New Ways of Emancipation from Global Power, Gabriel Mendez-Hincapie and Ricardo Sanin-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 Hernandez-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 Sanin-Restrepo / Part V: Decryption and Political Action / 10. Polyvalent Anarchism as a Hypothesis to Decrypt the Constitution, Gabriel Mendez-Hincapie 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
