Socioplastics 11816 Every Office Approved It
A housing complex can receive permits, fire certification and a maintenance contract while residents still lack a functioning accessible entrance. Each office has completed its assigned task; the combined outcome has no clear owner. AuthorityFragment identifies this break between authorised decisions and their assembled effects. It asks how responsibility can follow a problem as it crosses departments, contracts and budgets. Saskia Sassen studies how economic transformations reshape territorial and institutional authority. Timothy Mitchell examines how infrastructures and technical practices participate in political arrangements. Deborah Cowen follows logistics and the relations among public and private systems. Their work helps locate authority in the connections between organisations as well as within individual agencies. A public service often emerges from these interfaces, where documents transfer obligations and define what each actor can decide. A case study could trace one unresolved access problem from the first complaint through inspection, maintenance orders, budget review and contractor response. The record would name the decision-maker at each stage, the evidence transferred and the next responsible body. A shared case file could identify the official empowered to coordinate a remedy and provide residents with a clear point of contact. Follow-up inspection would test whether the assembled response restored access. AuthorityFragment turns distributed responsibility into a traceable public relation. It gives organisations a way to match cross-departmental consequences with an explicit route for action. Accountability becomes stronger when people can see how a decision moves through the system and who carries it forward. A responsibility map can make each transfer visible and help managers identify where a case needs coordination across several mandates.
REFERENCES
Cowen, D. (2014) The Deadly Life of Logistics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Mitchell, T. (2011) Carbon Democracy. London: Verso.
Sassen, S. (2006) Territory, Authority, Rights. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
CITE AS
Lloveras, A. (2026) Socioplastics, LAPIEZA-LAB, Madrid.
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