Cthulucene

Name

• Cthulucene

Origin

• 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.

Definition & Description

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

Discussions, Talks and Panels

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

Publications

Books

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

See Also

Futurisms, Anthropocene, Biocene, Aerocene, Pyrocene, Genecene