Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.

Our task is to make trouble, to stir up potent response to devastating events, as well as to settle troubled waters and rebuild quiet places.

The Anthropocene marks severe discontinuities; what comes after will not be like what came before. I think our job is to make the Anthropocene as short/thin as possible and to cultivate with each other in every way imaginable epochs to come that can replenish refuge. (100)

Go outside English, and the wild multiplies.

There are so many losses already, and there will be may more. Renewed generative flourishing cannot grow from myths of immortality or failure to become-with the dead and the extinct. (101)

First, promiscuously plucking out fibers in clotted and dense events and practices, I try to follow the threads where they lead in order to track them and find their tangles and patterns crucial for staying with the trouble in real and particular places and times.

Eichmann was astralized right out of the muddle of thinking into the practice of business as usual no matter what. ... The result was active participation in genocide. (36)

PigeonBlog no hacía un uso justificado de los animales no humanos porque no llevaba a cabo experimentos con base científica, cosa a la que PETA también se opondría, aunque no tanto, ya que al menos eso tendría a su favor una razón teleológica, funcional (la cura de enfermedades, el mapeo de genomas, etc.). El arte era banal, un mero juego comparado con el trabajo serio de expandir sujetos de derecho o promover avances en la ciencia.

The answer to the trust of the held-out hand: think we must.