Settled knowledge practices, truncated imaginations
批评Martin Parker的著作及其自我批评中的欧洲中心主义框架,指出这种固化的知识实践限制了想象资本主义替代方案的可能性,并借用觅食隐喻探讨地下斗争与团结越界如何创造另类世界。
Martin Parker recently auto-critiqued his book Against Management. Parker reflected on the book’s circulation, responded to some criticisms, and proposed a manifesto for a School of Organizing that must emphasize alternative organizational forms. I highlight the Eurocentric frame that permeates the book and the auto-critique. This Eurocentrism manifests as settled geographies, histories, and epistemic practices. Such knowledge practices truncate the possibilities of radically imagining alternatives to the contemporary crises of capitalism. I borrow Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s metaphor of foraging to briefly consider how subterranean struggles and solidaristic transgressions offer possibilities for alternative world-making.