· 2016
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
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Short summary
Theorist Donna Haraway proposes the 'Chthulucene' epoch, emphasizing 'making-with' (sym-poiesis) over self-making, as essential for navigating ecological devastation and building livable futures.
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Key points
- Proposes the 'Chthulucene' as a more fitting term for our current epoch than 'Anthropocene'.
- Defines the Chthulucene as an era of inextricable human and nonhuman entanglement.
- Advocates for 'sym-poiesis' (making-with) as the necessary mode of existence.
- Suggests 'staying with the trouble' of shared living and dying on a damaged Earth fosters future-building thought.
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Abstract
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices. The Chthulucene, Haraway explains, requires sym-poiesis, or making-with, rather than auto-poiesis, or self-making. Learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying together on a damaged earth will prove more conducive to the kind of thinking that would provide the means to building more livable futures. Theoretically and methodologically driven by the signifier SF-string figures, science fact, science fiction, speculative feminism, speculative fabulation, so far-Staying with the Trouble further cements Haraway's reputation as one of the most daring and original thinkers of our time
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