Decrypting Power(Global Critical Caribbean Thought) H 372 p. 18
内容
This book brings together critical legal studies, Subaltern studies, decolonization, law and society, global political economy, creolization, Caribbean philosophy, critical geopolitics and theories of de-coloniality. The authors present a concept of the 'encrypted constitution', a category of analysis that reveals the weakness of political liberalism when it takes the place of legitimate democracy, as well as its consummate capacity to conceal new mechanisms of global power. The book offers a set of tools that lead to a better understanding of the key political features of our time; the authors contend that the idea of decryption is the swiftest vehicle to attain the emancipation of the political subject, the 'hidden' people of democracy. Through an program of research and political action driven by the imperative need of decrypting constitutions, the authors contend that we will obtain a clearer picture of how power works in a globalized world overdetermined by capital. Encryption is not merely a semiotic or critical device, but rather a theory of justice immanent to any democratic society.
