Krasny, Elke. ‘Radicalizing Care: Feminist Futures for Living with an Infected Planet.’

Krasny, Elke. ‘Radicalizing Care: Feminist Futures for Living with an Infected Planet.’ In Radicalizing Care. Feminist and Queer Activism in Curating, edited by Elke Krasny, Sophie Lingg et al, 28-35, Publication Series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna vol 26

To take care means to see the world and ourselves as in it together. Very often, thinking of care conjures images of the frail, the sick, the weak, the vulnerable, the newborn, the dying. Those who are most in need of care yet cannot take care of themselves define the commonly held notion of care. This overshadows the fact that humans are always in need of care; fundamentally, humans are defined by their natality, their mortality, and their need for care. While this makes care a matter of life and death, and therefore an ontological category, the way that care is being organized, produced, and distributed within any historical formation is, of course, a product of history, and therefore open to economic, political, and social transformation.