We propose a geography that pluralizes the sites, practices and politics of authority. We defend an approach that tracks less perceptible forms of authority emerging through everyday micropolitics and experimental practices. In contrast to dominant definitions of authority as institutionalized legitimate power, we define authority as a relation of guidance emerging from recognition of inequalities in access to truth, experience or objectivity. Analysing four intersecting areas of authority (algorithmic, experiential, expert and participatory authority), we propose analyses grounded in political aesthetics that trace authority’s affective force, and its role in disclosing and contesting the common.

我们提出了一种地理结构，以使权力的场所，实践和政治多元化。我们捍卫一种方法，该方法跟踪通过日常微观政治和实验实践而出现的不太容易察觉的权威形式。与权威的权威定义（即制度化的合法权力）相反，我们将权威定义为一种指导关系，这种指导源于对获得真相，经验或客观性的不平等的承认。通过分析权威的四个交叉领域（算法权威，经验权威，专家权威和参与权威），我们提出了基于政治美学的分析，这些权威可以追溯权威的情感力量，以及它在公开和竞争共同体中的作用。