Metallica: For Whom The Bell Tolls (Mexico City, Mexico - March 3, 2017)

Metallica: For Whom the Bell Tolls (Mexico City, Mexico - March 3, 2017)

  “We don't give a FUCK what you look like, who you are, where you come from, what color you are. You are here tonight and you are FAMILY!!”  \m/

Johnny Cash - One

Johnny gets to me late at night.

“Well its too late Tonight To drag the past out Into the light”

Make kin: Haraways' suggestion  for new assemblage in the Anthropocene

Steve Paulson interviews author, scholar, and philosopher Donna Haraway.

Making Kin: An Interview with Donna Haraway

Donna J. Haraway has a Ph.D. in biology and described a philosopher, feminist theorist and etc. Her first notable work is 1985 “A Cyborg Manifesto”. She has waded into the lively debates surrounding the Anthropocene. 

She argues that in the Anthropocene we require a new ethic and understanding of the human and its position; we must stop putting us beyond other species and realize that “no species, not even our own arrogant one pretending to be good individuals in so-called modern Western scripts, acts alone; assemblages of organic species and of abiotic actors make history, the evolutionary kind and the other kinds too.” (Haraway, Donna: “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantatonocene, Chthulucene:Make Kin” Environmental Humanities vol. 6, 2015, s.159-165)

Recent her slogan is “make kin, not babies.” This slogan means that we need to strive for the collective existence of living and non-living entities to replenish the vitality of the planet.

She answered the question about “Making kin” in the article, “Making Kin: An Interview with Donna Haraway”.

You’ve written about the notion of “making kin.” What does kinship mean to you?

Making kin seems to me the thing that we most need to be doing in a world that rips us apart from each other, in a world that has already more than seven and a half billion human beings with very unequal and unjust patterns of suffering and well-being. By kin, I mean those who have an enduring mutual, obligatory, non-optional, you-can’t-just-cast-that-away-when-it-gets-inconvenient, enduring relatedness that carries consequences. I have a cousin, the cousin has me; I have a dog, a dog has me.

I first started using the word “kin” when I was in college in a Shakespeare class because I realized that Shakespeare punned with “kin” and “kind.” Etymologically they’re very closely related. To be kind is to be kin, but kin is not kind. Kin is often quite the opposite of kind. It’s not necessarily to be biologically related but in some consequential way to belong in the same category with each other in such a way that has consequences. If I am kin with the human and more-than-human beings of the Monterey Bay area, then I have accountabilities and obligations and pleasures that are different than if I cared about another place. Nobody can be kin to everything, but our kin networks can be full of attachment sites. I feel like the need for the care across generations is urgent, and it cannot be just a humanist affair.

You may not always be able to solve the problem yourself. "Human", on the other hand, is a category that is too big for people to actually live. When a person have empathy with other, when she take care of other’s problem, certain kind of relationship or commonality is necessary to put oneself  “in hers shoes” in many cases. 

Haraway's’ suggestion, "making kin", is to make the relationship and to go beyond the limitation of birth and species. 

Rodrigo Y Gabriella cover of Metallica's Orion

So do I. 

I love the stars.

Phoebe Bridgers: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

1. “Kyoto” 

2. “Moon Song”

3. “I Know The End.”