Read­ing María Puig de la Bel­la­casa’s arti­cle on fem­i­nist notions of care.

Puig de la Bel­la­casa, M. (2012). “Noth­ing comes with­out its world”: think­ing with care. The Soci­o­log­i­cal Review, 60(2), 197–216.

Puig de la Bel­la­casa writes evoca­tive­ly on Don­na Har­away’s work and draws it into an idea of care. I espe­cial­ly like how she fig­ures care as a way of bring­ing things into pro­duc­tive rela­tions with one anoth­er, not nar­row­ing in on oppo­si­tion­al dif­fer­ences, but seek­ing a gen­er­a­tive relationality.

One thing that’s note­wor­thy is the absence of Annemarie Mol in this text, with her in sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy schol­ar­ship. I won­der if this has to do with her only just veiled crit­i­cisms of some in fem­i­nist techno­science through her remarks on ‘new materialism’:

What­ev­er the case, Puig de la Bel­la­casa “spec­u­la­tive read­ing” of Har­away and her thick­en­ing of care pro­vides a help­ful basis for think­ing about what we know and how we know it.