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"Informal Infrastructure" of Prototyping: Practicing Organisation by Performing Materiality

dc.contributor.authorSánchez Valle, Francisco
dc.contributor.authorFernández García, Sandra
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-20T11:16:18Z
dc.date.available2024-05-20T11:16:18Z
dc.date.issued2022-12-01
dc.description.abstractIn recent years, sheltered by the so-called ‘ontological turn’ in the social sciences, organisational analysis has paid special attention to artefacts. Nevertheless, there is still a dominant account grounded in a dichotomist view of the subject-object relationship either in teleological (mind-body) or in hylomorfic (form-matter) terms when analysing organising practices. On the contrary, our argument is based on nondualistic approaches in an attempt to foreground relational aspects of practices. From a practice-based approach, the article addresses the role of three ‘prototypes’ aimed at the management of the ‘air’ by citizenship, in the reconfiguration of bodies, technics and ethical-political engagement. Specifically, it focuses on the normative dimensions of organising by which knowledges, materials and values converge in the open-ended process of prototyping. The argument is deployed by relying on qualitative research based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, developed both at different workshops and by online ethnography. The main aim of the article is to show how bodies and artefacts are mutually in/trans/formed when negotiating the social implications for the ontological category of ‘air’. In doing so, the concept of ‘informal infrastructure’ is proposed to account for those practices (which appear somewhat contingent, mundane or, at best, taken for granted) by which agents do not only commit to a particular ethical implication embedded in the category of ‘air’, as a symbolic result, but also to distinctive ways of practicing organisation as a political process of performing materiality. To this end, adopting the analytical concept of ‘informal infrastructure’ allows to simultaneously consider both the formal and informal aspects that emerge in these collaboration-driven practices, as well as to address their effects on the maintenance within and expansion into other networks.en
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2022.0386
dc.identifier.issn2044-0146
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/11434
dc.journal.issue3
dc.journal.titleSomatechnics
dc.journal.volume12
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherEdinburgh University Press
dc.relation.centerFacultad de Filosofía
dc.relation.departmentAntropología Social y Cultural
dc.rightsAtribución 4.0 Internacional
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
dc.subject.keywords‘informal infrastructure’
dc.subject.keywordsprototyping
dc.subject.keywordsethnography of infrastructure
dc.subject.keywordsorganising practices
dc.subject.keywordssociomateriality
dc.subject.keywordsontology
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