Immanent obligations of response: articulating everyday response-abilities through care

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