Bookmark: Reading Platform

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This month's focus is Donna Haraway & Staying with the Trouble (2016)

"From her classic Cyborg Manifesto, first published three decades ago, to her latest arguments about the “Chthulucene,” multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway is one of our most daring thinkers. A distinguished professor emerita in the history of consciousness department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Haraway has recently published her latest book, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Duke University Press, 2016), which urgently argues for a nonanthropocentric view of climate change and is driven metaphorically and theoretically by the signifier SF—for string figures, science fact, science fiction, speculative feminism, and speculative fabulation—as she discusses here."

• Artforum synopsis

Primary text:
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016)
Chapter 2: Tentacular Thinking -
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0x9U33zAEYuRnl6U0xWTlRQSFU

Secondary text (if you have time):
Bruno Latour - Waiting for Gaia
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0x9U33zAEYuSHFnRzFtMktJdGc

Extra sources:

Artforum Review of Staying with the Trouble by Lauren O’Neill-Butler -
https://www.artforum.com/words/id=63147

The Podcast for Social Research: Episode 17, "Reading Donna Haraway in the Anthropocene" -
http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/b/0/2/b02191c5d22a88e5/Podcast_for_Social_Research_Episode17.mp3?c_id=14166822&destination_id=85321&expiration=1506472575&hwt=c226d3607e4fc7b087f6a471d792886f