Care Power Information

From Provincialisation to Decolonial Options: A Methodology of Infrastructural Genealogy

“…Respectively, to have tools at hand that can provincialise from inside, to open one’s discourse up for choosing decolonial options in a cooperative, non-appropriative way is, in my view, an important step, or even better, a lateral move, or a move that simultaneously goes before-and-beyond as I proposed, for example, in Care Power Information (Stingl, 2020) on the example of how to ‘make trouble for the sociological canon’ and to ‘stay with’ it (Haraway).…”

“…I do believe that one can work with systematicity 1 without there having to be an all-encompassing, one-size-fits-all system (aka a fixed, hard and ambitious economy of relevance). To use an analogy: rather than producing a precisely managed, husbanded ( Oikos, Oikein ) garden that is ruled by the colonial, ‘territorial ambition’ (Mukerji, 1997) of pedagogy (the systemic instruction of the masses) of place-making (Mukerji, 2006, 2010, 2012) that sheds knowledge practices into ‘relevant/permitted’ and ‘irrelevant and thus disposable’ ones (Stingl, 2020), I propose that contributions, realistically, will have to be more like patch- work , tending (in systematicity) to patches of infrastructure aka knowledge and cultural labour, as one does to garden patches (Anna Tsing). 2…”

“…In the following, I will briefly explain that we 3 cannot simply be universally and trans-temporally post-colonial; instead, we need a way to slowly come together to a place where beginning with provincialisation, becoming response-able for a cooperative scholarship, and to be making a place from where in knowing where one comes from and stands the choosing of decolonial options is possible. Following a short description of a broader concept for infrastructure (as outlined in Stingl, 2020), I will make the case for a methodology of infrastructural genealogy : this methodology is inspired by a proposal from historical sociologist Mukerji (2007a) on cultural genealogy, and from there, it is further influenced by ideas gifted to us by Susan Leigh Star, Hans Blumenberg, Tim Ingold, Michael Mann, Atsuro Morita, Dorothy Smith, Vivien Schmidt, Hannah Appel, Andrea Ballestero and Kristin Asdal (see in particular Appel et al, 2018; Asdal, 2012, 2014; Asdal & Hobæk, 2016; de Goede, 2021; Larkin, 2013; Morita & Jensen, 2015).…”

“…In Care Power Information (Stingl, 2020, Chapter 10) I wrote about a different approach to infrastructure: I proposed that any larger territorial state and its society or otherwise organised collective, be it nationally or trans-/supranationally organised, will invest in guaranteeing freedom from external control on its members’ behalf into infrastructure . Infrastructure, following and dependent on the underlying, often neglected and silently othered more-than-human worlds, refers to the following three (partially interlocked) areas: knowledge, culture and information labour .…”

What Does It Mean to Colonise and Decolonise Philosophy?

“…As theodicean arguments eliminate any connection between the divine and its contradictions, many rationalisations of capitalism do the same. Although often confused with a celebration of markets, capitalism is actually against pluralities of markets in favour of an idol that we could call ‘the Market’ (see Gordon, 2021, and Stingl, 2021). Markets for many millennia were places or relations in which people met to socialise, wherein ‘trade’ and ‘exchange’ were not necessarily for profit or extraction.…”