Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin

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Anthropocene:The Anthropocene is termed as a current geological epoch, in which human activity has been the most dominant influence on the climate and environment. Haraway takes issue with this term although it is not redundent. Changes such as the steam engine would be a key symbol of the anthropocene. Boundary Event -she would prefer to think of anthropocene as a boundary event, much like K-Pg Boundary

Capitalocene - Most likely termed by Andreas Malm, another geological epoch, understanding how capitalism can be understood/defined through it’s geological effect for example it’s way of organising nature in relation to capital.The human species is not to Haraway the ‘earth’ destroyer, she is rather highlighting situated historical formations that are extremely real. The stakes are very high. BUT  “too readily to cynicism, defeatism, and self-certain and self-fulfilling predictions” (Haraway, 2016b) Refugia - refers to a place of refuge for a once wide spread species after a glacial event. A glacial event is an interval of time within an ice age, which is marked by much colder temp. Plantationocene - it is the invention of plantation not the configuration and circulation of capital (although linked and coupled), but it is the moving of ‘genomes’ around planet earth. The transportation of people, plants and trees, microbes and the trade routes involve in the that (Slavery inparticualr). the ways that plantation systems, unlike gardens, require a labour from elsewhere. What needs to be broke is the possibility of the ‘love of place’. This term probably does a much better job at representing the complexity of what we are living through.\

Chthulucene - The Chthulucene, alternatively, is “made up of ongoing multispecies stories and practises of becoming-with in times that remain at stake, in precarious times, in which the world is not finished and the sky has not fallen – yet” (Haraway, 2016b). In the Chthulucene, humans are not the only important actors – they, along with other beings, are with and of the earth, and “the biotic and abiotic powers of this earth are the main story” (Haraway, 2016b). Reworlding - reconstructing a world OR attempting to view a world differently.

Epoch

Making Kin K-Pg  boundary

Planetary  Terraformers Sym-chthonic forces - is that word that refers to the underworld

Holocene - began just after the last glacial event (the last Ice Age) Myriad The  Dithering (The Great Dithering)

Tentacular thinking- Thinking tentacular - this is about trying, about attempting. The etymology is "to feel, try”. Live is lived along lines not at points. ‘Humans are part of the story but tentacular is the name of the game’.

SF -She calls it a ‘net bag’, meaning the signifier SF (string figure, science fiction, science fact, speculative fabualition, speculative feminism, so far). this is a technology to think with (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHwZA9NGWg0). The use of string figures, the making of patterns, the relationailities which are highly material. String figuring allows us to stop the binary habits of thought, and instead allows us to think about the kind of pattern making that is going on.

Storytelling as a way of thinking - ‘it matters what ideas we use to think other ideas with’ (M.Strathern)- think the patterns. What stories tell stories. “Some of the best thinking is done through storytelling’.

Critters - “critters” refers promiscuously to microbes, plants, animals, humans and nonhumans, and sometimes even to machines. The compost pile, composting the act of turning biological waste into rich soil. This compost, is the idea of what comes after humans. When we again relate to this soil, therefore she calls herself a post-compost-ist, or a post-humus.

SF writers: Joanna Russ Ursula Le Guin Naomi Mitchison Octavia E Butler

REFERENCE AND TEXT

Haraway, D. (2015) “Anthropocene, capitalocene, plantationocene, chthulucene: Making kin,” Environmental Humanities, 6(1), pp. 159–165. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3615934.

(Haraway, 2015)

Link: https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/6/1/159/8110/Anthropocene-Capitalocene-Plantationocene

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MISCELLAENOUS

These notes are a mix of what Donna has written, and wiki. I didn't do a good job of keeping track.