A book that rocked my spring sabbatical was \u201cStaying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene\u201d (pronounced THUlucene), by CC\u2019s own Donna Haraway \u201966\u00a0<\/b>(she triple majored in zoology, philosophy, and literature while here on a Boettcher). Her \u201ctrouble\u201d is with the era most of us call the Anthropocene \u2014 and refers to decisive anthropogenic (human-caused) effects from climate change to mass extinction. She finds naming the era after ourselves, when we\u2019re the problem, to be the height of arrogance and ignorance, and instead offers Chthulucene as an alternative, tied to the idea of making kin with earth\u2019s critters \u2014 both human and not. All of this she sees as learning to \u201clive and die well,\u201d with \u201cresponse-ability\u201d in the Chthulucene, or to avoid paralysis as the only middle ground between the poles of \u201csublime despair and sublime indifference\u201d with regard to the trouble. It\u2019s a creative, at times quite fanciful, volume by a scientist who has vowed to always work in collaboration with artists, and like her earlier work (think \u201cCyborg Manifesto,\u201d) it can be a bedeviling read. I think she sneaks the word \u201cbumptious\u201d into every chapter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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