Universal Interdependence and Promiscuous Care

Challenges for Contemporary Chile

Abstract

This review examines The Care Manifesto (The Care Collective, 2021) as a political and theoretical intervention that frames the “care crisis” as a structural outcome of neoliberal capitalism. Grounded in an ethic of interdependence, the book calls for a reconfiguration of affective, communal, state, and global relations that sustain life. The review highlights the analytical strength of concepts such as “organized abandonment” and the “banality of carelessness,” placing them in dialogue with the Chilean context. It also explores the tensions between the proposal of a caring state, persistent social inequalities, and the rise of authoritarian responses to social precarity.