Care

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.