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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Donna J. Haraway refigures our current epoch, moving away from the Anthropocene toward the Chthulucene: an epoch in which we stay with the trouble of living and dying on a damaged earth while living with and understanding the nonhuman in complex ways conducive to building more livable futures.
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List of Illustrations  ix Acknowledgments  xi Introduction  1 1. Playing String Figures with Companion Species  9 2. Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene  30 3. Sympoiesis: Symbiogenesis and the Lively Arts of Staying with the Trouble  58 4. Making Kin: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene  99 5. Awash in Urine: DES and Premarin in Multispecies Response-ability  104 6. Sowing Worlds: A Seed Bag for Terraforming with Earth Others  117 7. A Curious Practice  126 8. The Camille Stories: Children of Compost  134 Notes  169 Bibliography  229 Index  265
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"In Staying with the Trouble, we find real SF: science fiction, science fact, science fantasy, speculative feminism, speculative fabulation, string figures, so far. So many ways to look at the world and ourselves, so many complicated ideas on how we critters will survive and thrive and die in the disturbing Chthulucene. Haraway is difficult to read. But the effort required is worth it."  
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"Staying with the Trouble is written with love and rage, making it felt what it takes not to turn one’s back against the demands of this terrible time which some dare to call the Anthropocene. Donna J. Haraway mobilizes the power of words, images, and tales to shake off the dual temptation of faith in providential technofixes and of bitter 'game over' pseudo-wisdom. Her book forcefully demands that we consent to participate in the ongoingness of the world."
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ISBN
9780822362142
Publisert
2016-09-19
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Duke University Press
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635 gr
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229 mm
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152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Engelsk
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Biographical note

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, most recently, Manifestly Haraway.