ABSTRACT

The geological epoch of the Anthropocene provokes the reconceptualization of responsibility as response-ability. Going beyond bounded individualism and human exceptionalism, this notion emphasizes the constitutive relationality of heterogeneous more than human beings that allows for response. Feminist STS scholar and biologist Donna Haraway has developed response-ability primarily as an epistemological notion with ontological and ethico-political aspects, crucial in the context of professional technoscientific research practices. This article articulates a nonprofessional, everyday response-ability, by rereading it as a combination of forms of care that are worldmaking, an etho-ecological practice, and experimental in nature. Thinking through María Puig de la Bellacasa’s multispecies care and Isabelle Stengers’ etho-ecological practices, I articulate everyday response-abilities. Response-abilities, like Puig de la Bellacasa’s worldmaking care, are ubiquitous. They constitute multiple, conflicting worlds in need of sustenance. Response-ability is self-reinforcing, which is both promising and problematic since it leads to unequal burdening and overburdening. Relaying response-ability as Stengers’ etho-ecological practice lays out its immanent obligations that both limit and allow for agency to respond beyond self-reinforcing appeals and amid conflicting obligations. This agency in response-able practices requires careful experimentation. Everyday response-abilities are something we are all engaged in yet need cultivation in times of crises through careful tinkering.

摘要

人类世的地质时代引发了将责任重新概念化为响应能力。这一概念超越了有限的个人主义和人类例外论，强调异质性而非人类的本构关系，允许做出反应。女权主义 STS 学者和生物学家唐娜·哈拉维 (Donna Haraway) 将反应能力发展为一种具有本体论和伦理政治方面的认识论概念，这在专业技术科学研究实践的背景下至关重要。本文阐述了一种非专业的日常反应能力，将其重新解读为世界创造、民族生态学实践和实验性护理形式的组合。在自然界。通过思考 María Puig de la Bellacasa 的多物种护理和 Isabelle Stengers 的民族生态实践，我阐明了日常反应能力。响应能力，例如 Puig de la Bellacasa 的世界创造关怀，无处不在。它们构成了需要维系的多重、相互冲突的世界。反应能力是自我强化的，这既是有希望的，也是有问题的，因为它会导致不平等的负担和负担过重。斯滕格斯的民族生态学实践将响应能力作为其内在义务的体现，这些义务既限制又允许机构在自我强化的诉求之外和相互冲突的义务中作出反应。该机构在可响应的实践中需要仔细的实验​​。