Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds

Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds

"In Matters of Care, María Puig de la Bellacasa presents a powerful challenge to conventional notions of care, exploring its significance as an ethical and political obligation for thinking in the more than human worlds of technoscience and naturecultures. Matters of Care contests the view that care is something only humans do, and argues for extending to non-humans the consideration of agencies and communities that make the living web of care by considering how care circulates in the natural world. The first of the book’s two parts, 'Knowledge Politics,' defines the motivations for expanding the ethico-political meanings of care, focusing on discussions in science and technology that engage with sociotechnical assemblages and objects as lively, politically charged 'things.' The second part, 'Speculative Ethics in Antiecological Times,' considers everyday ecologies of sustaining and perpetuating life for their potential to transform our entrenched relations to natural worlds as 'resources.'"

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