{"id":5840,"date":"2025-11-12T13:42:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T11:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harmon.es\/?p=5840"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:42:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T11:42:31","slug":"el-cuidado-como-gesto-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harmon.es\/en\/el-cuidado-como-gesto-politico","title":{"rendered":"Care as a Political Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<article class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none [--shadow-height:45px] has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none has-data-writing-block:-mt-(--shadow-height) has-data-writing-block:pt-(--shadow-height) [&amp;:has([data-writing-block])&gt;*]:pointer-events-auto [content-visibility:auto] supports-[content-visibility:auto]:[contain-intrinsic-size:auto_100lvh] scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]\" dir=\"auto\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-turn-id=\"30a06842-2dca-4333-98d6-477d77ad5c12\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-54\" data-scroll-anchor=\"true\" data-turn=\"assistant\">\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] thread-sm:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] thread-lg:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(16)] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] thread-lg:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"30a06842-2dca-4333-98d6-477d77ad5c12\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[1px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full break-words light markdown-new-styling\">\n<p data-start=\"116\" data-end=\"665\">Seated on the terrace of a caf\u00e9 in Madrid\u2019s Plaza de Santa Cruz, an elderly woman orders two coffees. It\u2019s Saturday afternoon, and sunlight filters through the narrow streets of the Cortes district. The waiter shouts toward the bar, <strong>\u201cOne coffee for Manuela, and another for her sister!\u201d<\/strong> He steps back outside, greeting a couple of passers-by in near-perfect Spanish. Perhaps they\u2019re workers from nearby caf\u00e9s, ending their morning shifts and heading home\u2014maybe toward the southern neighbourhoods, where the city still breathes at a different pace.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"667\" data-end=\"1193\">It\u2019s surprising to witness this kind of exchange in <strong data-start=\"719\" data-end=\"749\">the Madrid of the Austrias<\/strong>, just a street away from the Plaza Mayor. Alongside this scene, I notice a couple with suitcases, a family speaking German, and a group who seem to be pausing between an Instagram-famous brunch and a free walking tour. Each scene layers over the next, forming a sort of urban palimpsest\u2014a city written and rewritten by overlapping lives: residents, tourists, and workers crossing paths, revealing different ways of inhabiting the same space.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1195\" data-end=\"1832\">This blend of moments also shows how <strong data-start=\"1232\" data-end=\"1268\">tourism reshapes the way we look<\/strong>. Some gazes are born of habit and familiarity; others follow a choreography repeated endlessly. As <strong data-start=\"1368\" data-end=\"1383\">Ana Pacheco<\/strong> explains in <em data-start=\"1396\" data-end=\"1433\">Estuve aqu\u00ed y me acord\u00e9 de nosotros<\/em>, in tourist spaces we tend to look at what others have already looked at. Perception becomes standardised: we seek to take the same photo of the <strong data-start=\"1579\" data-end=\"1597\">Schweppes sign<\/strong> and relive experiences already validated by others. The city becomes diluted\u2014packaged into consumable experiences that extract value from the local, hollowing it out and replacing meaning with immediacy, appearance, and consumption.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1834\" data-end=\"2667\">The contrast between temporalities becomes clear. On one side, <strong data-start=\"1897\" data-end=\"1923\">Manuela and her sister<\/strong> evoke a slower world where time stretches and relationships form beyond haste. Yet they coexist with those who rush through the city, transforming it into what <strong data-start=\"2084\" data-end=\"2097\">Marc Aug\u00e9<\/strong> called a <em data-start=\"2107\" data-end=\"2118\">non-place<\/em>\u2014a space without memory. This echoes <strong data-start=\"2155\" data-end=\"2181\">Baudelaire\u2019s modernity<\/strong>, a city experienced as spectacle rather than as an entanglement of everyday lives. A <strong data-start=\"2267\" data-end=\"2282\">liquid city<\/strong>, as <strong data-start=\"2287\" data-end=\"2297\">Bauman<\/strong> would say, where everything changes and dissolves as fast as it is consumed. Perhaps that\u2019s why <strong data-start=\"2394\" data-end=\"2411\">Blas de Otero<\/strong> called Madrid his <em data-start=\"2430\" data-end=\"2442\">stepmother<\/em>\u2014the city feels that way to those who arrive from other provinces seeking stability and dignity, only to face <strong data-start=\"2552\" data-end=\"2618\">sky-high rents, precarious work, and declining quality of life<\/strong> each time they step into Line 10 of the metro.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2669\" data-end=\"3374\">If this new wave of tourism turns Madrid into a non-place stripped of connection, what\u2019s missing is precisely what <strong data-start=\"2784\" data-end=\"2799\">Simone Weil<\/strong> called \u201cthe rarest and purest form of generosity\u201d: <strong data-start=\"2851\" data-end=\"2864\">attention<\/strong>. Not the fleeting glance of a tourist, but the kind that implies <strong data-start=\"2930\" data-end=\"2938\">care<\/strong>\u2014recognising others in their everyday existence. To stop and notice <strong data-start=\"3006\" data-end=\"3032\">Manuela and her sister<\/strong> is to see that there are still neighbours sustaining life in a space designed to be exploited and consumed. A place where low wages, high rents, and precariousness seep into daily life. This is why <strong data-start=\"3231\" data-end=\"3253\">attention and care<\/strong> become acts of resistance\u2014ways of weaving community against the isolation and indifference that dominate urban living.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3376\" data-end=\"3732\">In the midst of a culture of immediacy, <strong data-start=\"3416\" data-end=\"3442\">to stop and truly look<\/strong> becomes a <strong data-start=\"3453\" data-end=\"3474\">political gesture<\/strong>. Against false promises of progress, attention restores weight to the everyday. Caring for a cultural centre, a public square, or a neighbourhood relationship becomes a quiet form of defiance\u2014a statement that the city does not exist solely to be consumed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3734\" data-end=\"4021\">Perhaps the future of Madrid\u2014and of so many other cities\u2014depends on this capacity for attention: on recognising what still pulses in unheard voices and unseen ties. Because wherever someone tends and listens, there still exists the possibility of <strong data-start=\"3981\" data-end=\"4018\">community, belonging, and meaning<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4023\" data-end=\"4048\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em data-start=\"4023\" data-end=\"4048\" data-is-last-node=\"\">By <strong>Raquel Alonso Teuler<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"z-0 flex min-h-[46px] justify-start\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"pointer-events-none h-px w-px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-edge=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seated on the terrace of a caf\u00e9 in Madrid\u2019s Plaza de Santa Cruz, an elderly woman orders two coffees. It\u2019s Saturday afternoon, and sunlight filters through the narrow streets of the Cortes district. 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