Staying with the trouble: making kin in the Chthulucene / Donna J. Haraway.

By:

Haraway, Donna Jeanne [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Experimental futuresPublisher: Durham and London Duke University Press, 2016Description: xv, 296 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmISBN:

9780822362241 (pbk. : acidfree paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

599.95 HAR 23

LOC classification:

QL85 .H369 2016

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	599.95 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100610741

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

List of Illustrations (p. ix)
Acknowledgments (p. xi)
Introduction (p. 1)
1 Playing String Figures with Companion Species (p. 9)
2 Tentacular Thinking Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene (p. 30)
3 Sympoiesis: Symbiogenesis and the Lively Arts of Staying with the Trouble (p. 58)
4 Making Kin: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene (p. 99)
5 Awash in Urine: DES and Premarin in Multispecies Response-ability (p. 104)
6 Sowing Worlds: A Seed Bag for Terraforming with Earth Others (p. 117)
7 A Curious Practice (p. 126)
8 The Camille Stories: Children of Compost (p. 134)
Notes (p. 169)
Bibliography (p. 229)
Index (p. 265)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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