Open AccessTwists and turns of sympoiesis: reflections on the one notion from Donna Haraway’s book "Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene"
Author(s) -
Boris Podoroga
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
vox
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2077-6616
pISSN - 2077-6608
DOI - 10.37769/2077-6608-2021-35-11
Subject(s) - materialism , posthumanism , epistemology , sociology , anthropocentrism , variety (cybernetics) , narrative , ontology , timeline , aesthetics , environmental ethics , philosophy , history , computer science , linguistics , archaeology , artificial intelligence
The paper is set to explore the concept of ‘sympoesis’ as it is laid out in the Donna Haraway title “Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in Chthulucene”. Tracing back to the symbiosis theory put forth by Lynn Margulis, sympoesis describes a kind of collective production predicated on interaction of a variety of lifeforms, genomes, species, communities and worldviews that overhauls representations of man as a figure of domination ranging from the classical hero to the modern day corporate manager. While looking to understand how Haraway’s conceptual repertory is aligned with her purpose to step outside of the Western anthropocentric legacy thinking and establishing a novel non-human materialistic ontology working through emergent chthonic forces, we consider the Gaia hypothesis and the notions of ‘tentacular thinking’ and ‘trouble’ alongside with a timeline of Anthropocene, Capitalocene, and Chthulucene discussed in the book.