Staying with the Trouble

Making Kin in the Chthulucene

By: Donna J. Haraway

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

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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A comprehensive ontology

"It matters who eats whom, and how." An excellent metissage of story, science, and art.

A challenging but rewarding work!

This is philosophy. It is challenging in the dual sense of metaphors that need pondering, and one's worldview that may need rethinking. In other words: it is exactly what good philosophy should be.

I am grateful that I came across this book. It is expanding my vocabulary and challenging me to consider new ways of thinking.

Not only that: it's also funny 🤣 Haraway knows how to reach the 21st century audience. In fact, she was probably ahead of her time when she first published "A Cyborg Manifesto", but this work is a maturation from that time some ~30 years ago.

I do not give the book full score on "story" and "performance" because frankly some parts of the book are really good, highly quotable, while others are a little boring in comparison. For example the last chapter was much less interesting than those before it, although by no means not worth reading. The performance was also good, but nothing extraordinary, although I must admit the old lady voice really makes me think it's Haraway herself speaking to me, so that's a big positive.

mindblowing, loving and nuanced.

haraways imagination is sublime and her thought parternes outragious. any one who is sick of the antropocene as a hollow term, lyst read this!

so important

Hope AND responsibility!!! ♡ abundant in references for continued research! thank you Donna Haraway! ☆

Brilliant

Donna Haraway writes in a delicious and captivating lyrical tone to urgent ideas.
I recommend this text for any thinking human seeking to live in troubling times.