Strategic ignorance can be a ground-up equitable political strategy

Evidence

The idea of strategic ignorance proposed by McGoey can make inroads into opening up such problematic and exclusionary political rationalities of Western modernity. This is not a question of discerning a conflict between (a certain type of) knowledge versus (a certain type of) ignorance, but rather asking how strategic ignorance can be mobilized from the ground up as a more equitable political strategy. Answering the latter question is neither the cynical rejection of evidence nor the positing of a new type of rationality (populist, cosmopolitan, or otherwise). — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 327

Categorization

• QUESTION: Reader must assess whether this ‘strategic unknowing from below’ is convincing or concedes too much — this is the analytical crux.
• XREF: Ties to McGoey’s strategic ignorance literature and Mbembe’s critique of liberal reason above in the chapter. — connects to: Neoliberals weaponize performative ignorance to paralyze post-crisis response — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 40; Feigned ignorance of outcomes is structurally required for neoliberal order — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 276