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Matters of care in technoscience: Assembling neglected things
Abstract
This paper aims to encourage an ethos of care in the study of science and technology. It starts with a reading of Bruno Latour’s notion of ‘matters of concern’ as favouring an awareness of the ethico-political effects of constructivist accounts in STS. Introducing attention to concern brings us closer to a notion of care. However, there is a ‘critical’ edge to care that Latour’s politics of things tends to disregard. Drawing upon feminist knowledge politics, I propose to treat matters of fact and sociotechnical assemblages as ‘matters of care’ and argue that engaging with care requires a speculative commitment to neglected things.
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- de la Bellacasa, M. P.
- Venue
- Social Studies of Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2010-12-07
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 85-106
- ISSN
- 0036-8539 (ISSN-L)
- 0306-3127
- 1460-3659
- OpenAlex
- W2102709386
- Cited by
- 1,511
- References
- 9
- FWCI
- 311.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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