Staying with the Trouble

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.

Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
First edition
AuthorDonna Haraway
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
SeriesExperimental Futures
GenrePhilosophy
PublisherDuke University Press, Durham, North Carolina
Publication date
2016
Pages296
ISBN9780822362142
OCLC972076555
599.9/5
LC ClassQL85 .H369

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]

Structure

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, Captialocene, Chthulucene

Three: Sympoiesis: Symbiogenesis and the Lively Arts of Staying with the Trouble

Four: Making Kin: Anthropocene, Captialocene, 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

References
  1. Haraway, Donna (2016). Staying With The Trouble: Making Kin In The Chtulucene. United States of America: Duke University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-8223-6224-1.
  2. "Book Review: Donna Haraway's Staying with the Trouble". The Chart. 2017-06-21. Retrieved 2018-06-20.


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