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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.Mesh:
Year: 2011 PMID: 21553641 DOI: 10.1177/0306312710380301
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Soc Stud Sci ISSN: 0306-3127 Impact factor: 3.885