Walker, A., 2023.
Care
Output Type: | Chapter in a book |
Publication: | Art, Labour, Text and Radical Care |
Publisher: | Routledge, New York |
ISBN/ISSN: | 9781003335047 |
URL: | doi.org/10.4324/9781003335047-8 |
Pagination: | pp. 114-132 |
The chapter presents 'radical care' as an ethical-methodological framework through which the disruptive arttext might be fostered.
Badiou's notion of a fidelity--a connection existent within the present but which will, barring extreme events, pass through the threshold to a wide range of possible futures--is taken up. Love and friendship are considered as possible forms of such fidelity, but in seeking a more flexible and material criterion of connection, attention turns to care.
The chapter reflects on the discourse of critical care developing within feminist technoscience and offers examples such as a collectively run Italian kindergarten and the Black Panthers Party's programme of free breakfasts for schoolchildren through which to explore the multifaceted qualities care can hold.
In seeking to incorporate a greater unpredictability and immediacy into care though, through which technospheric abstraction might be disrupted, a concept of 'radical care' is set out.