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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.
One of the founders of the posthumanities, Donna J. Haraway is
professor in the History of Consciousness program at the University
of California, Santa Cruz. Author of many books and widely read
essays, including the now-classic essay "The Cyborg Manifesto," she
received the J.D. Bernal Prize in 2000, a lifetime achievement
award from the Society for Social Studies in Science. Thyrza
Nicholas Goodeve is a professor of Art History at the School of
Visual Arts.
As the planet's human numbers grow and environmental concerns
proliferate, natural scientists, economists, and policy-makers are
increasingly turning to new and old questions about families and
kinship as matters of concern. From government programs designed to
fight declining birth rates in Europe and East Asia, to
controversial policies seeking to curb population growth in
countries where birth rates remain high, to increasing income
inequality transnationally, issues of reproduction introduce new
and complicated moral and political quandaries. Making Kin Not
Population ends the silence on these issues with essays from
leading anti-racist, ecologically-concerned, feminist scholars.
Though not always in accord, these contributors provide bold
analyses of complex issues of intimacy and kinship, from
reproductive justice to environmental justice, and from human and
nonhuman genocides to new practices for making families and kin.
This timely work offers vital proposals for forging innovative
personal and public connections in the contemporary world.
Haraway's discussions of how scientists have perceived the sexual nature of female primates opens a new chapter in feminist theory, raising unsettling questions about models of the family and of heterosexuality in primate research.
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One of the founders of the posthumanities, Donna J. Haraway is
professor in the History of Consciousness program at the University
of California, Santa Cruz. Author of many books and widely read
essays, including the now-classic essay "The Cyborg Manifesto," she
received the J.D. Bernal Prize in 2000, a lifetime achievement
award from the Society for Social Studies in Science. Thyrza
Nicholas Goodeve is a professor of Art History at the School of
Visual Arts.
"The Companion Species Manifesto" is about the implosion of nature
and culture in the joint lives of dogs and people, who are bonded
in "significant otherness." In all their historical complexity,
Donna Haraway tells us, dogs matter. They are not just surrogates
for theory, she says; they are not here just to think with. Neither
are they just an alibi for other themes; dogs are fleshly
material-semiotic presences in the body of technoscience. They are
here to live with. Partners in the crime of human evolution, they
are in the garden from the get-go, wily as Coyote. This pamphlet is
Haraway's answer to her own "Cyborg Manifesto," where the slogan
for living on the edge of global war has to be not just "cyborgs
for earthly survival" but also, in a more doggish idiom, "shut up
and train."
Electrifying, provocative, and controversial when first published
thirty years ago, Donna Haraway's "Cyborg Manifesto" is even more
relevant today, when the divisions that she so eloquently
challenges-of human and machine but also of gender, class, race,
ethnicity, sexuality, and location-are increasingly complex. The
subsequent "Companion Species Manifesto," which further questions
the human-nonhuman disjunction, is no less urgently needed in our
time of environmental crisis and profound polarization. Manifestly
Haraway brings together these momentous manifestos to expose the
continuity and ramifying force of Haraway's thought, whose
significance emerges with engaging immediacy in a sustained
conversation between the author and her long-term friend and
colleague Cary Wolfe. Reading cyborgs and companion species through
and with each other, Haraway and Wolfe join in a wide-ranging
exchange on the history and meaning of the manifestos in the
context of biopolitics, feminism, Marxism, human-nonhuman
relationships, making kin, literary tropes, material semiotics, the
negative way of knowing, secular Catholicism, and more. The
conversation ends by revealing the early stages of Haraway's
"Chthulucene Manifesto," in tension with the teleologies of the
doleful Anthropocene and the exterminationist Capitalocene. Deeply
dedicated to a diverse and robust earthly flourishing, Manifestly
Haraway promises to reignite needed discussion in and out of the
academy about biologies, technologies, histories, and still
possible futures.
"When Species Meet is a breathtaking meditation on the intersection
between humankind and dog, philosophy and science, and macro and
micro cultures." -Cameron Woo, Publisher of Bark magazine In 2006,
about 69 million U.S. households had pets, giving homes to around
73.9 million dogs, 90.5 million cats, and 16.6 million birds, and
spending over $38 billion dollars on companion animals. As never
before in history, our pets are truly members of the family. But
the notion of "companion species"-knotted from human beings,
animals and other organisms, landscapes, and technologies-includes
much more than "companion animals." In When Species Meet, Donna J.
Haraway digs into this larger phenomenon to contemplate the
interactions of humans with many kinds of critters, especially with
those called domestic. At the heart of the book are her experiences
in agility training with her dogs Cayenne and Roland, but Haraway's
vision here also encompasses wolves, chickens, cats, baboons,
sheep, microorganisms, and whales wearing video cameras. From
designer pets to lab animals to trained therapy dogs, she deftly
explores philosophical, cultural, and biological aspects of
animal-human encounters. In this deeply personal yet intellectually
groundbreaking work, Haraway develops the idea of companion
species, those who meet and break bread together but not without
some indigestion. "A great deal is at stake in such meetings," she
writes, "and outcomes are not guaranteed. There is no assured happy
or unhappy ending-socially, ecologically, or scientifically. There
is only the chance for getting on together with some grace."
Ultimately, she finds that respect, curiosity, and knowledge spring
from animal-human associations and work powerfully against ideas
about human exceptionalism. One of the founders of the
posthumanities, Donna J. Haraway is professor in the History of
Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa
Cruz. Author of many books and widely read essays, including The
Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant
Otherness and the now-classic essay "The Cyborg Manifesto," she
received the J. D. Bernal Prize in 2000, a lifetime achievement
award from the Society for Social Studies in Science.
Haraway's discussions of how scientists have perceived the sexual
nature of female primates opens a new chapter in feminist theory,
raising unsettling questions about models of the family and of
heterosexuality in primate research.
Since the 1990s, the ways that knowledge is created and used have
changed. "Flexible knowledges," collaborative experiments across
specialized communities of practice, have become increasingly
important. By analyzing reenactments, Katie King highlights some of
the challenges, and pleasures, posed by experiments in flexible
knowledges. Focusing on science-styled TV programs, such as NOVA's
"Secrets of Lost Empires" series, and museum exhibitions, including
"Science in American Life" at the Smithsonian, she describes how
scholars, curators, historians, television producers, authors,
journalists, hobbyists, and others were compelled to work together
to communicate complex technical knowledge across multiple media
platforms. With limited authorial control, they sought to reach
widely differing local audiences, and to do so against a background
of national interests, changing technologies, the dynamics of
globalization, and the restructuring of the knowledge, culture, and
entertainment industries. King points to elements common to the
more successful reenactments: fine-grained analysis; attention to
multiple perspectives and scales, from the visual to the temporal;
and the participation of audience members engaged affectively and
imaginatively. Based on her assessment of the recent past, King
posits the emergence of a feminist posthumanities.
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.
Since the 1990s, the ways that knowledge is created and used have
changed. "Flexible knowledges," collaborative experiments across
specialized communities of practice, have become increasingly
important. By analyzing reenactments, Katie King highlights some of
the challenges, and pleasures, posed by experiments in flexible
knowledges. Focusing on science-styled TV programs, such as NOVA's
"Secrets of Lost Empires" series, and museum exhibitions, including
"Science in American Life" at the Smithsonian, she describes how
scholars, curators, historians, television producers, authors,
journalists, hobbyists, and others were compelled to work together
to communicate complex technical knowledge across multiple media
platforms. With limited authorial control, they sought to reach
widely differing local audiences, and to do so against a background
of national interests, changing technologies, the dynamics of
globalization, and the restructuring of the knowledge, culture, and
entertainment industries. King points to elements common to the
more successful reenactments: fine-grained analysis; attention to
multiple perspectives and scales, from the visual to the temporal;
and the participation of audience members engaged affectively and
imaginatively. Based on her assessment of the recent past, King
posits the emergence of a feminist posthumanities.
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