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6005A Presentation "Staying With The Trouble" By Donna Haraway
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Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
By: Donna J. Haraway
Presentation by: Aaliah Carlos
6005A: Bodies: Organic, Inorganic, and Technological
11/08/2021
Professor: Ganaele Langlois
Overview
- About the Author
- Actors
- Key Themes and Concepts
- Main Arguments
- Internal Themes
- External Themes
- Reflections/Questions
Overview
About the Author
- American Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the Department of Feminist Studies
- Haraway studied Zoology, English and Philosophy from the University of Chicago and earned a Ph.D. at Yale in biology in 1972
- Main interests: ecofeminism, feminist studies, multi- species research, posthumanism etc.
- Prominent scholar in Science and Technology Studies
- Haraway critiques and challenges anthropocentrism and encourages the reorganization of human and non-human relations
About the Author
Actors
Human and Non-Human:
- Pigeons, Spiders, Bobtail Squids, Bacteria, Ants, Acacias,
Coral, Children of the Compost, Camilles, Hannah Arendt, Anna Tsing, Thom van Dooren, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Déborah Danowski Ursula le Guin, Bruno Latour, Isabelle Stenger, Eileen Crist, Carla Hustak, Natasha Myers, Vinciane Despret
Actors
Haraway 2016, 35
Quick note: methods & context
Key Themes
Haraway 2016, 59
Key Themes
- This week's theme: Non-Human Bodies Part II
- Staying with the trouble
- Chuthulucene
- Entanglements
- Patterns, Practices and Processes
- Tentacular Thinking
- Multi-species world-making
- Response-ability and ongoingness
- Kin and Oddkin
- Sympoiesis
- 5 SF’s (generative complex systems): String Figures, Speculative Feminism, Science Fiction , Science Fact, Speculative fabulation
Affirm on the ground collectives capable of inventing new practices of imagination, resistance, revolt, repair and mourning, and of living and dying well… another world is not only urgently needed, it is possible”. (Haraway 2016, 51)
“Change on earth is not the problem; rates and distributions of change are very much the problem...coalitions of people and critters in this storm are critical to the possibilities of earth’s powers of resurgence” . (Haraway 2016, 73.)
Haraway
Haraway 2016, 84.
Haraway 2016, 32
Haraway 2016, 23
Internal Themes
Chapter 1- Playing String Figures with Companion Species
Chapter 2- Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Captialocene, Chuthulucene
Chapter 3- Sympoiesis: symbiogenesis and the lively arts of staying with the trouble
Chapter 4- Making kin: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene
Chapter 5- Awash in urine: des and Premarin in multispecies response-ability
Chapter 6- Sowing worlds: a seed bag for terraforming with earth others
Chapter 7- A curious practice
Chapter 8- The Camille stories: children of compost
Internal Themes
Haraway 2016, 77
Haraway 2016, 57
External Themes
1. The Mushroom at the End of the World
By: Anna Tsing
2. The Ends of the World
By: Déborah Danowski and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
3. Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation
By: Juno Salazar Parreñas'
External Themes
Reflections/Questions
Haraway 2016, 139
Reflections/Questions
- Making kin in the Chthulucene
- Response-abilities and collaborations that entangle
- On-goingness
Questions:
1. How would you start reimagining human and non-human relationships in your everyday life?
2. Do you agree with the processes of making kin in the Chthulucene?
3. Do you think the human species can truly re-organize and restructure our lives on a large scale that would be reflective of co-habitant values?