| Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene | |
| Author: | Donna Haraway |
| Country: | USA |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Experimental Futures |
| Genre: | Philosophy |
| Publisher: | Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina |
| Release Date: | 2016 |
| Pages: | 296 |
| Isbn: | 9780822362142 |
| Dewey: | 599.9/5 |
| Congress: | QL85 .H369 |
| Oclc: | 972076555 |
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene is a 2016 book by Donna Haraway, published by Duke University Press. In a thesis statement, Haraway writes: "Staying with the trouble means making oddkin; that is, we require each other in unexpected collaborations and combinations, in hot compost piles. We become - with each other or not at all."[1] Both the imagery of the compost pile and the concept of oddkin are repeated motifs throughout the work.
By emphasizing connectedness, Staying with the Trouble can be thought of as a continuation of major themes from "A Cyborg Manifesto" and The Companion Species Manifesto. Haraway's book can also be thought of as a critique of the Anthropocene as a way of making sense of the present, de-emphasizing human exceptionalism in favor of multispecism.[2]
Staying with the Trouble is broken into eight chapters, the majority of which are revisions of previous work dating from as early as 2012.
One: Playing String Figures with Companion Species
Written in honor of G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Haraway's PhD Advisor, and Beatriz da Costa.
Two: Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene
Three: Sympoiesis: Symbiogenesis and the Lively Arts of Staying with the Trouble
Four: Making Kin: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationcene, Chthulucene
Five: Awash in Urine: DES and Premarin in Multispecies Response-ability
Six: Sowing Worlds: A Seed Bag for Terraforming with Earth Others
Seven: A Curious Practice
Eight: The Camille Stories: Children of Compost