Difference between revisions of "Chthulucene"

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Coined by scientist and theorist Donna Haraway in her book, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene in 2016.
The term was also in use by Haraway in years prior to 2016.

Chthulucene is a neologism created by Donna Haraway and critiques the term Anthropocene to describe the Earth's current age. For Haraway, the Anthropocene does not provide the necessary narrative to break out of thought patterns and actions that are destructive to all living things. It only emphasises the supremacy of humans, their individualism and self-invented exceptionalism.
Derived from the word Chthonic, meaning ancient, underworld and subterranean.
The "-cene" suffix refers to an era.
The chthulucene is an era that's defined by not being able to think of ourselves as disconnected from the rest of life on earth or dominant over it. We have our tentacles in everything and everything has its tentacles in us.

"Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene: Staying with the Trouble", talk by Donna Haraway for the History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, May 09 2014.

Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, Duke University Press, 2016.

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 * Derived from the word Chthonic, meaning ancient, underworld and subterranean.
 * The "-cene" suffix refers to an era.
+* The chthulucene is an era that's defined by not being able to think of ourselves as disconnected from the rest of life on earth or dominant over it. We have our tentacles in everything and everything has its tentacles in us.
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