Donna Haraway's work defies disciplines, combining insights from both biology
and feminist thought, and drawing on her own involvement in political projects
organized around feminism and radical science. Haraway’s most recent book,
Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, takes up these
questions as the fragility of earth’s webs of life is becoming frighteningly
and increasingly apparent. What are the ethical and political demands in the
face of the most pressing threat of our era—catastrophic climate change? To
stay with the trouble, Haraway argues, is to reject technofixes that will save
us from doom on the one hand, and on the other, to reject the pessimistic idea
that “it’s too late” to make the world better. The book outlines a view of
what Haraway calls “multispecies flourishing” and the obstacles to achieving
it through theoretical insights and speculative fiction imaginings.
Interviewed by Jacobin editorial board member Alyssa Battistoni.
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Alyssa's piece on Haraway for n+1: nplusonemag.com/issue-28/reviews/monstrous-
duplicated-potent
Sophie Lewis's critique of Haraway and population politics:
viewpointmag.com/2017/05/08/cthulhu-plays-no-role-for-me
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