Staying with the trouble: making kin in the chthulucene

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Multispecies feminist theorist Haraway offers new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She refers to our epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices. The Chthulucene requires sym-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. List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Playing String Figures with Companion Species 9 2. Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene 30 3. Sympoiesis: Symbiogenesis and the Lively Arts of Staying with the Trouble 58 4. Making Kin: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene 99 5. Awash in Urine: DES and Premarin in Multispecies Response-ability 104 6. Sowing Worlds: A Seed Bag for Terraforming with Earth Others 117 7. A Curious Practice 126 8. The Camille Stories: Children of Compost 134 Notes 169 Bibliography 229 Index 265