In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation multispecies feminist theorist Donna J.
Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its
inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene preferring to
conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene as it more aptly and fully describes our
epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices.
The Chthulucene Haraway explains requires sym-poiesis or making-with rather than
auto-poiesis or self-making. Learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying together on
a damaged earth will prove more conducive to the kind of thinking that would provide the means
to building more livable futures. Theoretically and methodologically driven by the signifier
SF--string figures science fact science fiction speculative feminism speculative fabulation
so far--Staying with the Trouble further cements Haraway's reputation as one of the most daring
and original thinkers of our time.
