Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

Making Kin in the Chthulucene

312 pages

English language

Published Feb. 17, 2016

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978-0-8223-6214-2
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4 stars (9 reviews)

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 …

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4 stars

What a joyful blending and interweaving of feminist, more-than-human, art-science-speculation, and anger at capitalism's depletion of our capacity to think in relational terms.

"The anthropocene is more of a boundary event than an epoch ... what comes after will not be like what came before. I think our job is to make the Anthropocene as short/thin as possible and to cultivate with each other in every way imaginable epochs to come that can replenish refuge."

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4 stars

Donna Haraway is always extraordinary at offering refreshing ideas. In Staying With The Trouble she works with SF (String Figures, or Science Fiction, or Some Formulation from those letters). The chapters weave together disparate ideas, introducing her concept of the Cthulucene (essentially an epoch of an interconnected underworld) and linking together theory, literature, art and autobiography. The book is then an experiment in stringing things together, and a proposal for interconnected thinking.

Each chapter links in another idea. These range from ethology and more-than-human studies to feminist observations on the body, drugs, and industrialisation. The book culminates in the creation of Camille, a 5-generation long multi-species child that is the result of interdisciplinary workshops that Haraway took part in. The ideas put forward are a roadmap for a future that is hopeful, in a time sorely lacking in hope.

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3 stars

This is a good collection of essays, repetitive in parts but they build on each other as well. I really liked Haraway's SF story at the end! I also liked the chapter about her dog (because there's always at least one story about her dog). I think it was a more interesting meditation on companion species than the Manifesto.

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