Staying with the Trouble, Donna J. Haraway
Staying with the Trouble, Donna J. Haraway
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Staying with the Trouble
Making Kin in the Chthulucene

Author: Donna J. Haraway

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Unabridged: 8 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/14/2017

Synopsis

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.

About Donna J. Haraway

Donna J. Haraway is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of several books, including Manifestly Haraway.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joshua on March 20, 2017

A long time ago, Ursula K. Le Guin wrote a story. Its title was a mouthful: "The Author of Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of Therolinguistics." The book looked forward to later developments in science that identified communication in plants--we're living in that future right now--a......more

Goodreads review by julieta on February 29, 2020

Amé todas las posibilidades que plantea este libro, su lenguaje, su idealismo, su imaginación. Una maravilla para imaginar las posibilidades de actuar que tenemos en este mundo de tiempo presente, un poco desbordado, y ecológicamente en camino al desastre. Que la imaginación nos abra puertas, que no......more

Goodreads review by Alees on December 08, 2023

Mi ricorderò di te, Orchidea. Ti ricorderò "I fiori di alcune orchidee sembrano api femmine. Quando i maschi cercano di accoppiarsi, spargono polline. Questa orchidea - l'Ophrys Apifera - fa i fiori, ma le api non ci vanno sopra. L'ape imitata dal fiore si è estinta tempo fa. Senza il suo partner, l'o......more

Goodreads review by Jacob on November 02, 2019

Three short passages from Staying with the Trouble: I think babies should be rare, nurtured, and precious; and kin should be abundant, unexpected, enduring, and precious. Good stories reach into rich pasts to sustain thick presents to keep the story going for those who come after. The Anthropocene mark......more

Goodreads review by Markus on April 03, 2019

If you read this book while doing drugs, Donna Haraway's dog will physically manifest in your living room and lecture you about the sympoeitic relation of colonial masculinity, carrier pigeons and the military industrial complex. I'm not sure if this lose collection of essays and speculative fiction......more

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