Cyborg arrugginiti e animali potenti. Donna Haraway alla ricerca di un mito per l’Antropocene

Rusty Cyborgs and Powerful Animals. Donna Haraway in Search of a Myth for the Anthropocene: the ecological crisis is not only a crisis of an unsustainable economic/production model, but it is also a crisis of thought, of discourse on Earth. Haraway’s reflection (as demonstrated by the centrality in...

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Main Author: CAROFALO, VIOLA
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it 2019-06-01
Series:S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it
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Online Access:http://www.scienzaefilosofia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/21-04-CAROFALO.pdf
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Summary:Rusty Cyborgs and Powerful Animals. Donna Haraway in Search of a Myth for the Anthropocene: the ecological crisis is not only a crisis of an unsustainable economic/production model, but it is also a crisis of thought, of discourse on Earth. Haraway’s reflection (as demonstrated by the centrality in her thought of the ironic myth of the cyborg), focuses on the need to find images, metaphors, myths capable of explaining the world and put us in a position to transform it. Haraway responds to the image of Anthropocene by coining the lemma “Chthulucene”; with this word she underlines the definitive death of anthropocentrism and the beginning of a new era
ISSN:2036-2927