Staying with the Trouble
Summary
Feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway refuses two easy responses to ecological devastation: faith that technology will fix it, and the despair that says it’s too late. Her alternative, ‘staying with the trouble’, means “learning to be truly present” on a damaged earth. That takes “making oddkin”, unexpected collaborations across species, because “We become-with each other or not at all.”
Rationale
Haraway distrusts futurisms that skip the present. One of our prompts runs the same way: can work be “of benefit here and now”, whatever deeper cultural effects follow?
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