Le Merle, vol. 5, no. 2, Fall 2018: About Care

Care has a strange relationship to order: it seeks a return to equilibrium but doesn’t dominate. It calls for a kind of attention, it involves a nearness, and it entails a search: signs have to be read and followed, and shifted about, to lay a path for a transformation. In the health system, where people are given the responsibility to heal others, the impression is that current conditions have turned caregiving into something debilitating or miserable (quite often both). Everything is a cubicle and nothing is going well. At the same time, there is something else going on: care can spill over the forces trying to hem it in. This issue of Le Merle deals with some of those profusions and the words and gestures they produce, here and elsewhere.

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