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Staying with the Trouble
- Making Kin in the Chthulucene
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Summary
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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- Katita
- 25-09-23
To read and read again
A book for life praxis, written with the passion and desire for a better world.
Feminist accounts to make you think about humanity and all the possibilities to live other-wise.
Brilliant performance. Laural reads this book with fantastic nuance. It’s not an easy book to follow, so her way to read makes you pay attention!
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- eileen boyle
- 09-05-23
Great for challenging the mind
Yes this book challenges and one feels like putting it down but it is well worth sticking with it to the end.
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- Amazon Customer
- 24-05-20
Awful narration
Really dreadful narration- ruins an awesome book. Please re-record with a new , preferably author narration...
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- Edward Christmas
- 22-10-24
Fascinating, enriching and generative
This book, though often hard to grasp because of it’s effort to create a whole new language for thinking about the present, past and future is essential for considering exactly what it says on the cover - for staying with the trouble.
It is rare that a book can encapsulate and challenge so much, without losing the vibrant and complex ways of being in the world.
It witnesses the problems of our times and offers a generative and generational path into the future - through SF, curiosity and compassion.
Very much recommend for anyone who finds that the majority of dialogue around our situation is either unhelpful or downright toxic - Haraway gives us pause to consider our options, and traces the problems sufficiently back to their roots for us to be able to move forward. It does not offer the whole solution, but there is no silver bullet. It simply takes staying with the trouble, and living in the compost of time and life - sympoietically.
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- apttyler
- 23-12-19
Challenging and fascinating
Haraway presents a thesis to disrupt human-as-the-centre-of-the-world. She brings ideas from biological sciences and challenges readers to look again, anew, at the world and the lens through which we believe we can see the world.
Early chapters repeat ideas and sections of prose in ways that are sometimes distracting. The pace and form, like the rhizome structures described, shoot off in unexpected directions with boundaries only emerging when several threads intersect.
I recommend reading the last chapter first, to frame the rest of the book.
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