Cyborg Revolution with Donna Haraway

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Donna Haraway's work defies disciplines, combining insights from both biology and feminist thought, and drawing on her own involvement in political projects organized around feminism and radical science. Haraway’s most recent book, Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, takes up these questions as the fragility of earth’s webs of life is becoming frighteningly and increasingly apparent. What are the ethical and political demands in the face of the most pressing threat of our era—catastrophic climate change? To stay with the trouble, Haraway argues, is to reject technofixes that will save us from doom on the one hand, and on the other, to reject the pessimistic idea that “it’s too late” to make the world better. The book outlines a view of what Haraway calls “multispecies flourishing” and the obstacles to achieving it through theoretical insights and speculative fiction imaginings. Interviewed by Jacobin editorial board member Alyssa Battistoni.
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Alyssa's piece on Haraway for n+1: nplusonemag.com/issue-28/reviews/monstrous-duplicated-potent
Sophie Lewis's critique of Haraway and population politics: viewpointmag.com/2017/05/08/cthulhu-plays-no-role-for-me
The Leap Manifesto: leapmanifesto.org/en/the-leap-manifesto
The Xenofeminist Manifesto: laboriacuboniks.net

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2:15.0	Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm
2:26.1	broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. Donna Harroway received a PhD in Cell Biology from Yale in 1972, but she was eventually
2:38.9	hired as the first feminist theory professor in the country in the History of Consciousness
2:44.7	Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
2:49.5	Radicalized amidst the 1970s movements of women's liberation and radical scientists
2:54.9	fighting the appropriation of their work by capital and empire.
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