Jack Odeo, PhD Student in Human Geography at Stockholm University, has together with Andrea Pollio, at DIST, Politecnico di Torino, Italy written a commentary in response to an article exploring the digitalisation of sub-national administration in Kenya. Both are published in Dialogues on Digital Society.
Writing about the digitalisation of subnational administrations in Kenya, Datta and Hoefsloot make the case for engaging the temporality of the state as a locus of power and its expression. As a cinematic auteur, they argue, the state times and sequences the asynchronous moments of its action.
Building on this insight, Odeo and Pollio's commentary adds a vectoral dimension to the relationship between time and statecraft, giving effect and sense to the hastened technological and infrastructural initiatives by the state.
