STAYING WITH THE TROUBLE

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to rec onfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferr ing 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-wit h, rather...[Read more]