Very cool blog here harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2025/02/23/t... Endlessly pursuing efficiency damages underlying relationships. And it's our invisible relational infrastructure that offers resilience & flex in the system. We should value it more. Thanks @janestr.bsky.social for sharing this. - ThreadSky

charliepsych.bsky.social • 7 days ago

Very cool blog here https://harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2025/02/23/the-invisibility-of-infrastructures/

Endlessly pursuing efficiency damages underlying relationships. And it's our invisible relational infrastructure that offers resilience & flex in the system. We should value it more.

Thanks @janestr.bsky.social for sharing this.

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nawalmo.bsky.social•7 days ago

great! due to the heavy load of participation related to race, gender and sexuality on the infrastructure i am working on, psychology works pretty well when sorting data but still requires observation. the main problem is that lecturing on it automatically makes you part of its deeply flawed vision.

nawalmo.bsky.social•7 days ago

which gives you the visibility you shouldn't have, and devalues the visibility you seek. an infrastructure that can be very easily manipulated, especially if you are both female and professional.

nawalmo.bsky.social•7 days ago

someone may argue with the theory of invisibility and its positive impact on a given infrastructure [if they aren’t masters in manipulation], they should be fully aware that invisibility does not equally mean not getting paid for your work.

charliepsych.bsky.social•7 days ago

Nawal👋wow this sounds fascinating please can I understand this more? So there are forms of in/visibility that are desired & others that are imposed?
I think this blog is speaking about the relational infrastructure that we can create- soft power. There's also structural racism, misogyny, ableism...

nawalmo.bsky.social•6 days ago

charlie👋 with every rise in soft power in professional fields, there is misogyny. it is not a new phenomenon, has been around since the birth of man. in/visibility are controlled in this way. it is better understood when working with large language models with different sets of cultural influences.

nawalmo.bsky.social•6 days ago

my point here is: imposed invisibility should never be accepted as a good measure for any kind of professional or social interaction and nobody should ever entertain that unless they are misogynists.

ianinspen.bsky.social•7 days ago

Having a single point of contact meshes well with this thinking. You carry on a conversation and that person knows your history. Invisibly so to speak.

charliepsych.bsky.social•7 days ago

Oh yeah good point. Yeah I imagine 'continuity of care' was just an invisible form of effectiveness for years in primary care...

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