Perturbing possibilities in the postqualitative turn: lessons from Taoism (道) and <italic>Ubuntu</italic>.

Recognizing cognitive imperialism in the emerging postqualitative regime, we propose a hesitation, a perturbation to think the other-than-ness of the west. Asserting the postqualitative regime as west reinforces hegemonic epistemological violence; we look to the East and Africa - progenitors of the west-termed postqualitative regime and seek to privilege the onto-epistemologies from which these concepts were culturally (mis)appropriated. More specifically, we explore the southern African philosophy of Ubuntu and Taoism from the East to transgress west. These oft-western denigrated indigenous philosophical concepts embody the postqualitative conceptual (mis)appropriations of entanglement, the inseparability of ontology and epistemology (onto-epistemology), and an ontological positionality of immanence - interpenetration - impermanence. Re-conceptualizing the postqualitative regime, we offer a <italic>turn to</italic> non-western indigenous ontologies illuminating African and Eastern philosophies pregnant with multiple possibilities for living-thinking-being ourselves, postqualitative research, and the world anew. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]