Care

Walker, Adam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9068-6621 (2023) Care. In: Art, Labour, Text and Radical Care. Routledge Research in Art and Politics . Routledge, New York, pp. 114-132. ISBN 9781003335047

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Abstract

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.