POL DEBB MIKI IRYO SILVA

In times of climate urgency, Donna J. Haraway publishes her work Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016) in order to reflect on the way we deal with knowledge on an increasingly degraded planet, where it is urgent to rethink the ways we live and die. In view of this background, the present research aims to reflect on the relationship between art and science proposed by Haraway as an alternative to understanding and being in the world. To do so, it is necessary to analyze the Haraway’s lexicon constructed throughout her previous works; in this case, we will start with the essays that marked her youth, A Cyborg Manifesto and Situated Knowledges, in order to understand the echoes of her youthful writings in the development of her figures and metaphors. We will then analyze how the author handles the acronym SF, particularly the string figure and how scientific knowledge is articulated with it, aiming to understand its importance in her narrative proposal of the Chthulucene. Finally, we will analyze the impacts that Haraway's political-epistemological project has had over the past 8 years on knowledge production in the Brazilian context.