Definition
A claim against compulsory total legibility, continuous inference, and systems that make participation conditional on exhaustive recognisability.
HAKKI TAN · REALITY PARADIGM · HT–11
Right to Opacity
A claim against compulsory total legibility, continuous inference, and systems that make participation conditional on exhaustive recognisability.
“Participation should not require total exposure.”
CANONICAL DEFINITIONHT–11
What is Right to Opacity?
Within Hakkı Tan's Reality Paradigm research programme, Right to Opacity names a claim against compulsory total legibility, continuous inference, and systems that make participation conditional on exhaustive recognisability.
Analytical question
Can a person remain socially and institutionally viable without becoming continuously readable, inferable, and actionable to integrated systems?
Conceptual boundary
Opacity is not secrecy without limit, exemption from law, or a ban on evidence. It is a demand that necessity, proportionality, contestability, and viable non-disclosure be designed into infrastructures.
Place in the research programme
It is a normative counter-concept to onoptic compulsory inclusion and the infrastructural foreclosure of refusal.
RELATED TERMS AND FORMS
Right to OpacityOpaklık HakkıOpacity rightOntological opacity
SUGGESTED CITATION
Tan, Hakkı. “Right to Opacity.” Hakkitan.org — Hakkı Tan Research Archive, 2026. https://hakkitan.org/concepts/right-to-opacityhttps://hakkitan.org/concepts/right-to-opacity