omnipresent, even through the effects of its absence

for thinking and living in more than human worlds

everything that we do to maintain, continue and repair “our world” so that we can live in it as well as possible

• - caring about
• - taking care of
• - care giving
• - care receiving

care as a vital in interweaving a web of life

care is not about fusion.
it can be about the right distance.

it doesn’t mean that to care should be a moral obligation in all situations - practices - or decisions.

care as intrinsically involving
-> ethical
-> political
intervention

• objectionable
• speculative

“WHY SHOULD I CARE ABOUT CARE?”

• RE - articulation
• RE - conception
• RE - enactment

RECLAIMING
CARE

I RESIST CATEGORIZING CARE

----- DISPLACING CARE -----

cultural - political - ethical challenges

PART I knowledge politics

expanding the ethico-political meaning of care
-> preoccupation with knowledge politics in technosciences

cap 1 assembling neglected “things”

materiality in more than human thing

cap 2 thinking with care

mattering of worlds

cap 3 touching vision

being touched by what we touch
-> RECIPROCITY ( -> rarely bilateral )
-> collective disseminated force

PART II speculative ethics in antiecological times

nature cultures
“what does it mean to think of agencies of care in more than human terms?”

cap 4 alterbiopolitics

mattering of worlds on ethics of collective empowerment that puts caring at the heart of the search of everyday struggles for hopeful flourishing of all beings, of bios understood as a more than human community

cap 3 soil times

blue jeans yarn (WOOL AND THE GANG)
washed out denim
100gr +/- 148yd / 135 cm
20% upcycled denim
80% upcycled cotton