That is the per­spec­tive from which Gaia is the fig­ure of the Anthropocene. But it of course is named that way because of the cor­rect under­stand­ing that peo­ple, for­get the Anthropos, peo­ple have been doing on this plan­et has in fact changed the plan­et for­ev­er, and for every­one. But let’s move to the biolo­gies and go to Lynn Margulis. But it was picked up and pop­u­lar­ized by Paul Crutzen, an atmos­pher­ic chemist who won a Nobel Prize. Haraway herself puts forward a formulation involving several criticisms of the use of the term Anthropocene. Despite reliance on computer modelling and systems theories, Anthopocene discourse is marked by bounded utilitarian individualism. When we need to know why Aphrodite tested Psyche so ruthlessly. 2011. The many bio­log­i­cal process that have come to be shown as gen­er­al to life on Earth were ungras­pable with­in the sci­ences of the mod­ern syn­the­sis, basi­cal­ly. Available at: http://www.e-flux.com/journal/75/67125/tentacular-thinking-anthropocene-capitalocene-chthulucene/ (7.11.2016), Moore, Jason. Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene. Simultaneously I pro­pose that it has become lit­er­al­ly unthink­able to do good work in any inter­est­ing field with the premis­es of indi­vid­u­al­ism, method­olog­i­cal­ly indi­vid­u­al­ism, and human excep­tion­al­ism. [3], Martin Heidegger refers to it as a 'bringing-forth' (physis as emergence), using this term in its widest sense. I do this sim­ply to sig­nal that those metab­o­lisms of the oikos and [ikos? Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer joined togeth­er to pop­u­lar­ize the name Anthropocene specif­i­cal­ly in rela­tion­ship to those sorts of process­es ema­nat­ing par­tic­u­lar­ly from the mid-18th cen­tu­ry and the steam engine and the extra­or­di­nar­i­ly expand­ing use of fos­sil fuels that acid­i­fy the oceans, bleach the corals (They were par­tic­u­lar­ly wor­ried about a vib­rio infec­tion in coral reefs that’s respon­si­ble for bleach­ing— We’ll be hear­ing more about vib­rio bac­te­ria both from me and from Margaret [McFall-Ngai] in a few min­utes. They are pow­er­ful. But what the sci­ences of the mod­ern syn­the­sis could not do and did not do was have any grip on micro­bi­ol­o­gy, part­ly because micro­bi­ol­o­gy works in such a weird way. Additional example: The night gathers at the close of day. There is no Anthropos, no humanity as a unified actor. What we have here is Greenpeace going against a Russian oil rig in the Russian areas of the Arctic. No, our feelings are entangled like tentacles that twist and turn from shadows like strands of DNA make its way from egg to egg to egg in the steep dark of the womb through time asking us "how will we live now, what is to come?". I don't want to leave, escape, go to heaven. Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. A word for ancient, underworld, and "subterranean". They could not and did not deal with sym­bio­sis. لم نعثر على أي مراجعات في الأماكن المعتادة. I would like to pro­pose for per­fect­ly obvi­ous rea­sons that for all of the fail­ings of the Anthropos and the Anthropocene, and all of the strengths of both, the Anthropos did not do this thing that threat­ens mass extinc­tion, and that if we were to use only one word for the process­es that we’re talk­ing about, it should be the Capitalocene. I sing it songs and offer it prayers. As I have been for a long time, I’ve been try­ing to stay with the trou­ble under the sign of sci­ence of SF, of string fig­ures, sci­ence fact, sci­ence fic­tion, spec­u­la­tive fab­u­la­tion, spec­u­la­tive fem­i­nism, so far. In Donna Haraway, 2016, http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/Cavalier/80250/Plato/Symposium/Sym2.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poiesis&oldid=986439827, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text, Articles with unsourced statements from July 2016, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 31 October 2020, at 21:44. In the case of the bleached coral and cholera in Haiti, I think we have quite anoth­er atti­tude toward the encour­age­ment of vib­rio on this planet. In 1981, Chaosium released their role-playing game Call of Cthulhu. Compost not Posthuman. For some words on the Anthropocene and the Sociopocene: https://www.derrickjensen.org/myth-of-human-…/anthropocene/…, Click below for our newsletter about plants, place, and magic as well as our upcoming class and events!. But both the above terms feel like dead ends or boxes that deny the multidimensional, multi-origins, and infinite potential of the universe, including the potential that the beauty of humanity can be cultivated. Stark non­sense. In all begetting and bringing forth upon the beautiful there is a kind of making/creating or poiesis. This work is not opposed to practical action, rather it is the foundation of any sustainable and informed response” (van Dooren & Rose, 2015; emphasis in original). As you know, Ursula Le Guin is my prin­ci­pal inspi­ra­tion for a great deal, not least her way of approach­ing ques­tions of nar­ra­tion, evo­lu­tion, writ­ing, ​“The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction.” That rather than a hero­ic sto­ry told yet one more time with the first beau­ti­ful words and weapons, or words as weapons and weapons as words, instead rethink the ques­tions of evo­lu­tion in a much small­er vein, with the tiny, hollowed-out neg­a­tive spaces, the shell which can hold some water that can be shared, the net bag that can car­ry food back to the camp, that can car­ry the baby. When we need to know why Psyche had to rebel. It is about a becoming-with-each-other in another new term: what I’m calling the chthulucene. In the Chthulucene, 'making kin' is of utmost importance. I’m struck by the fact that two kinds of insights seem to have over­tak­en the intel­lec­tu­al schol­ar­ly world, inter­na­tion­al­ly real­ly, and across the divi­sions of the dis­ci­plines. And I think among us, the ques­tion of whether we are Eichmanns is a very seri­ous one. In this formulation, she alludes to complex systems approaches such as 'Gaia theory', conceptualised by Lovelocke and subsequently developed together with Lynn Margulis. The moments of flip from accom­mo­da­tion, accom­mo­da­tion, accom­mo­da­tion, whoops, col­lapse. Haraway's book can also be thought of as a critique of the Anthropocene as a way of making sense of the present, de-emphasizing human exceptionalism in favor of multispecism. In other words, the technomorphic paradigm contrasts with the biomorphic; the theory of nature as a whole with the theory of the living individual. The word is also used as a suffix, as in the biological term hematopoiesis, the formation of blood cells. That conceptual frame is the Chthulucene. 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. Nothing found on this site is intended to diagnose, treat, or cure a medical condition or replace or simulate the activities of mainstream medicine  and any resemblance to such is entirely incidental.