Care, Power, Information: For the Love of Bluescollarship in the Age of Digital Culture, Bioeconomy, and (Post-)Trumpism

ISBN-13: 9781032082714 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 410 str.

Alexander Stingl

Opis

In a discourse analysis and provincialization of research and higher education, a tradition of elitarian White Collaredness in academia and in the social sciences in general is criticized and an alternative attitude towards the production, transfer and use of knowledge – BluesCollarship – is proposed in this book.

Spis treści

PART A: (As in a priori) – Of Mythonauts and Mythophants

Introduction (or, rather: hors d’oeuvre hors-texte): Against “White Collar” Sociology

1. Mythical Engines: On Theory, Knowledge, and Technologies

PART B: (As in Belonging and Being) – Under the Spell of a Myth: Oikos as Operating System

2. Matters of Fact, Matters of Interest, Matters of Care

3. Oikos, Property, Urban Normativity: The Source Code for Class and Psyche

4. Remanence of the Oikos in the FQu Economy and Digital Coloniality

5. Care Power Information: A B’n’B for Oikos?

6. The Emergence of Green Precarity: Bioeconomies as Technological Zones in the Imaginary of the Global Rural-Urban Matrix

PART C: (As in Creative Misunderstanding, Care, and Commoning) – Contact Zones and Imaginaries as Permeable Borders of Empirical Arenas on the Road toward BluesCollarship

7. Nomadic Statehood: Toward a Theory of the Question “When are States”?

8. Covfefe that Matters: Toward a Different Sociological Imagination

9. Making Trouble in, for, and with “The Canon” – Toward a Sociology of Possibilities

10. Concluding Matters: Commoning Infrastructural Power in the Pluriversity – Going Before-and-Beyond Oikos with BluesCollarship

O autorze

Alexander I. Stingl is a WIRL-CoFund Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies and Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of The Digital Coloniality of Power.