''Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene'' is a 2016 book by

Donna Haraway Donna Jeanne Haraway (born September 6, 1944) is an American professor emerita in the history of consciousness and feminist studies departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a prominent scholar in the field of science and te ...

, published by

Duke University Press Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University. It was founded in 1921 by William T. Laprade as The Trinity College Press. (Duke University was initially called Trinity College). In 1926 ...

. 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." Both the imagery of the

compost pile Compost is a mixture of ingredients used as plant fertilizer and to improve soil's physical, chemical, and biological properties. It is commonly prepared by Decomposition, decomposing plant and food waste, recycling organic materials, and man ...

and the concept of oddkin are repeated motifs throughout the work. By emphasizing connectedness, ''Staying with the Trouble'' can be thought of as a continuation of major themes from "

A Cyborg Manifesto "A Cyborg Manifesto" is an essay written by Donna Haraway and first published in 1985 in the ''Socialist Review (US), Socialist Review'' under the title "A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s." In it, th ...

" and '' The Companion Species Manifesto''. Haraway's book can also be thought of as a critique of the

Anthropocene ''Anthropocene'' is a term that has been used to refer to the period of time during which human impact on the environment, humanity has become a planetary force of change. It appears in scientific and social discourse, especially with respect to ...

as a way of making sense of the present, de-emphasizing human exceptionalism in favor of multispecism.

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 A string figure is a design formed by manipulating string on, around, and using one's fingers or sometimes between the fingers of multiple people. String figures may also involve the use of the mouth, wrist, and feet. They may consist of singu ...

with Companion Species Written in honor of G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Haraway's PhD Advisor, and Beatriz da Costa. Two: Tentacular Thinking:

, Capitalocene
Chthulucene
'' Three: Sympoiesis:

Symbiogenesis Symbiogenesis (endosymbiotic theory, or serial endosymbiotic theory) is the leading evolutionary theory of the origin of eukaryotic cells from prokaryotic organisms. The theory holds that mitochondria, plastids such as chloroplasts, and possibl ...

and the Lively Arts of Staying with the Trouble Four: Making Kin: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationcene, Chthulucene Five: Awash in Urine: DES and

Premarin Conjugated estrogens (CEs), or conjugated equine estrogens (CEEs), sold under the brand name Premarin among others, is an estrogen medication which is used in menopausal hormone therapy and for various other indications. It is a mixture of th ...

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

{{reflist Works by Donna Haraway Science and technology studies works Books in philosophy of technology Duke University Press books