A review by kaitlincort
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna J. Haraway

5.0

“Make kin not babies:” a poetic expansion of interdependence in the post-anthropocene world after impending global catastrophes, to rethink our ways of thinking, and redefine the definitions by which we define all other things. A feminist epistemology of interspecies cognition — Another gift by the biologist-become-critical-theorist who brought us the feminist theory of cyborgs and chimera, and who, acting like a prism, revealed a spectrum of personhood from apes to androids to dogs as companionate species. This book is a natural extension of Haraway’s body of ideas, to a “tentacular” way of knowing that weaves though existences in a “string”- like way, like mathematical fabric art and the carrier pigeons that race through our city, itself rich with companionate species — ones that may or may not be journeying into this next epoch of Earth, with us or without us.