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Chthulucene

/kəˈθuːluːsēn/

Authors

Dr Amanda Thomson

Languages

English

See Also

Nature Spiritual
An alternative to the idea of the Anthropocene proposed by Donna J. Haraway, its name derived from the spider Pimoa cthulhu.

Further Reading

Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna J. Haraway [book, 2016]

Text

“Unlike either the Anthropocene or the Capitalocene, the Chthulucene is made up of ongoing multispecies stories and practices 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. We are at stake with each other.”

 

“The unfinished Chthulucene must collect up the trash of the Anthropocene, the exterminism of the Capitalocene, and chipping and shredding and layering like a mad gardener, make a much hotter compost pile for still possible pasts, presents, and futures.”

 

– Donna J. Haraway

 

 

Media

A depiction of invertebrates by German biologist Ernst Haeckel, published as lithographic and halftone prints in Art Forms in Nature (1899).

Questions & Provocations

How do we make connections across peoples, species, and listen and make space for those whose voices are unheard, or are quieter? How might we take time to listen?
Dr Amanda Thomson