What Does the World Look Like with Care in Charge? with Sally Weintrobe

Thursday November 20th
Doors & drinks at 6.30pm; Talk starts 7pm

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Imagine a world in which care is more powerful than uncare. Only with care in charge will life prove sustainable. What kind of repair work is needed to achieve this world?

In this talk Sally Weintrobe, a psychoanalyst who writes and talks on climate and on politics, will focus on the issue of power, viewing the human mind as the site of a ceaseless power struggle between forces of care and uncare.

She will argue that to repair our world we must repair the damage done to our minds by what she calls the culture of uncare. This culture’s perverse – and entirely instrumental - aim is to attack our capacity to care, weaken our sense of lively entitlement to care, and rob care of its power to act for the good.

Sally's talk will be based on the ideas she's developing for a new book on power relations within the psyche, social groups and the political process. Her previous writing includes "Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare" (2021), "Climate Psychology: A Matter of Life and Death" (co-author, 2023) and "With Climate in Mind" (co-editor, 2025).

Sally's talk will be followed by a one-pot vegan supper and discussion.

Kairos, 84 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4TG

Doors open at 6.30pm for drinks. Talk starts at 7pm. 

£8 Frequent Visitor and Supporter Members; £15 Standard (includes Community Members); £10 Struggling financially; £8 Under 30s; £20 Supporter. Food complimentary. (To find out more about membership, visit our Membership page.)

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