Walter Mignolo's gnosis fronteriza and María Lugones's coloniality of gender reveal how epistemic violence operates through categories imposed from outside—the mapping of territories, the classification of peoples, the universalisation of Western knowledge as the only valid form. Topolexical sovereignty emerges as response to this violence: not refusal of relation but insistence on situated terms, the right to name one's own world from within one's own epistemic location. This struggle resonates across domains. Infrastructure Studies reveals how colonial pipelines, ports and railways continue to structure territory long after formal decolonisation, materialising epistemic violence in concrete and steel. Science and Technology Studies traces the Western assumptions embedded in scientific protocols, showing how standards carry epistemological bias. Media Archaeology excavates the technical media through which colonial categories were imposed—maps, censuses, archives—and the forgotten alternatives they suppressed.
Political Ecology exposes the metabolic extraction that accompanied colonial naming: resources taken, labour exploited, ecologies transformed in the name of progress. Network Science can map the topology of epistemic relations, revealing how citation networks and knowledge flows reproduce centre-periphery structures. Feminism adds gender to the colonial equation, showing how women's bodies and knowledges were doubly subjugated. Disability Studies reveals how the normate body was universalised as the human, excluding other forms of embodiment from consideration. Sound Studies attends to the silenced acoustic worlds of colonised peoples, the musics and languages deemed noise. Philosophical Botany recovers indigenous plant knowledges, revealing sophisticated taxonomies and ecologies that Western science ignored or appropriated. What emerges from this convergence is not a new decolonial theory but a recognition that certain aesthetic operations—like topolexical naming—function as acts of epistemic sovereignty. This capacity to name from within while remaining in relation, which might be termed socioplastics, names the infrastructural work of aesthetic forms that contest the coloniality of knowledge.
Lloveras, A. (2026) Socioplastics. https://antolloveras.blogspot.com
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