Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)

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.

• The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
• Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene
• How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
• Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
• Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
• Manifestly Haraway (Posthumanities)
• Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Posthumanities)
• Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything
• Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
• Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature