The Journal of Structural Power & Resistance

Volume 1, Issue 1: Silentium Fractum, Summer 2025

The Journal of Structural Power & Resistance is an independent, interdisciplinary academic journal dedicated to the analysis of corporate power, legal systems, institutional violence, and tactical resistance. The journal’s mission is to dissect the structures that enable unaccountable authority — and to publish work that equips readers to confront and dismantle those systems.

It exists to provide a forum for documenting how institutions exercise power through design, process, and doctrine—and how that power may be resisted, challenged, or exposed. It prioritizes work that bridges theory and praxis, drawing from law, ethics, philosophy, and lived experience. It rejects complicity with oppressive systems and embrace intellectual insurgency.

Our focus spans corporate law, political philosophy, and ethics, examining how structural power perpetuates itself and how individuals and movements disrupt these systems. This journal takes as its premise that law and policy do not operate in a vacuum. They are structured systems embedded with assumptions, incentives, and political compromises that shape how truth is constructed, whose voices are heard, and which harms are made legible. Too often, the architecture of rights and remedies serves to shield institutional actors from accountability, rather than expose or rectify misconduct.

This journal aims to document, analyze, and challenge the mechanisms by which systems of power are maintained—particularly through procedural obstruction, administrative evasion, retaliatory suppression, and narrative control. It welcomes work that crosses traditional boundaries: legal analysis informed by ethics and human rights; case studies grounded in lived experience; structural critiques sharpened by theory; and tactical frameworks developed through practice.

This journal is a project in public reasoning, democratic accountability, and epistemic clarity. I publish in the belief that documentation itself is a form of resistance, and that naming the design is a necessary first step toward its deconstruction. I believe that resistance requires documentation—and that truth, when carefully and publicly recorded, can outlast obstruction.

Volume 1, Issue 1 – Silentium Fractum focuses on the misuse of process: how litigation, regulatory procedure, and institutional policy are used to conceal wrongdoing and suppress dissent. The articles in this issue trace the contours of procedural violence, but also explore the tactical spaces within which truth may still be documented, preserved, and eventually heard.

Together, these articles form an indictment of how systems designed for justice are repurposed to protect power. These articles also offer counter-possibilities: that occupation of the system, with documentation, narration, and resistance within formal processes, has the potential to crack illusions of neutrality.

Our motto, nulli di, nulli domini, declares “no gods, no masters.” We believe systems of power are not inevitable. These systems are constructed — and anything constructed can be deconstructed.

Welcome to The Journal of Structural Power & Resistance.

- Ashley M. Gjovik

ashleygjovik.com