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    Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
    Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
    Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
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    Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

    Written by Donna J. Haraway

    Narrated by Laural Merlington

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    About this audiobook

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 14, 2017
    ISBN9781541482197
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    • 5/5
      “Make kin not babies:” a poetic expansion of interdependence in the post-anthropocene world after impending global catastrophes, to rethink our ways of thinking, and redefine the definitions by which we define all other things. A feminist epistemology of interspecies cognition — Another gift by the biologist-become-critical-theorist who brought us the feminist theory of cyborgs and chimera, and who, acting like a prism, revealed a spectrum of personhood from apes to androids to dogs as companionate species. This book is a natural extension of Haraway’s body of ideas, to a “tentacular” way of knowing that weaves though existences in a “string”- like way, like mathematical fabric art and the carrier pigeons that race through our city, itself rich with companionate species — ones that may or may not be journeying into this next epoch of Earth, with us or without us.

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    • 2/5
      Another title for this book could be “How to make decisions Dona Harraway would approve of”. I feel this book would make great reading material for psychologists interested in exploring Harraway’s psyche. At no point do I feel convinced even Harraway presents a meaningful strategy in the face of climate catastrophe. Just endless appropriations of indigenous words.