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    Este artículo brinda algunas respuestas y alternativas a ciertos problemas y propuestas en el área de la teoría democrática. El ensayo tiene como enfoque la cuestión de distinguir sistemas que pueden parecer democráticos sin serlo de sistemas realmente democráticos. Develando algunos actores disfrazados del discurso democrático en América Latina, el artículo argumenta que es preferible la regla de la mayoría como base para la identificación del bien común por medio del interés general, que regla…Read more
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    Reflections from the Theory of Encryption of Power: Energeia and the Manifestation of the Non-Being
    Global Manifestos for the Twenty-First Century: Rethinking Culture, Common Struggles, and Future Change. 2023.
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    Keys to Decrypt the Republic Against Democracy
    with Marinella Machado Araujo
    Law and Critique 33 (1): 41-62. 2022.
    The concept of the republic is a complex meta-principle that facilitates and conceals global relations of domination. Specifically, it enables the invisibility of racism as the core of political power. From its very origins the concept of republic serves to seize constituent power or politeia. In modernity, as it merges with private property, it will serve as the launchpad of a vast colonization project that then evolves in a new form of power in coloniality. The article applies the theory of th…Read more
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    Being and Contingency: Decrypting Heidegger's Terminology
    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2020.
    Using a hypothetical language game as a premise and working through the theory of decryption of power, the book decrypts the pillars of the philosophy of being, mainly Heidegger´s construction of the “ready to hand,” proposing a novel theory of being as difference that is impregnated in politics.
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    Is the Constitution the Trap? Decryption and Revolution in Chile
    with Ricardo Sanin Restrepo
    Law and Critique 31. 2020.
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    Decrypting Power (edited book)
    Rowman & Littlefield International. 2018.
    This book provides a sharp tool for clarifying the nature of power relations in our globalized world. It presents a coherent approach from diverse disciplinary and geopolitical perspectives on key concepts such as power, democracy and the law, connecting studies of coloniality, Caribbean thought, critical legal thinking and Latin American studies.
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    Decolonizing Democracy: Power in a Solid State
    Rowman & Littlefield International. 2016.
    In order to achieve a true democracy, this book explores different political and philosophical traditions that do not necessarily seem to speak in unison, notwithstanding their common goal: to propose an alternative to hard-line neo-liberalism, Western hegemony and coloniality.
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    La democracia en tu cara
    Filosofia Unisinos 10 (1): 92-115. 2009.
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    Manifest injustice from the (de)colonial matrix
    with Gabriel Méndez-Hincapié
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 41 (1): 29-36. 2015.
    Amartya Sen’s theory of enhancement of justice bears an insurmountable blind side that impairs and makes it incomplete, if not parochial. It dismisses coloniality as the veiled face of modernity (and of capitalism) without which any understanding of a theory of justice in a globalized world is impossible. Constructing a theory outside the complex frame of coloniality makes the theory vulnerable to severe hindrances. The duality (coloniality/modernity) produces a twofold but interdependent realit…Read more