Think We Must!

Donna Haraway
"Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene: Staying with the Trouble", 5/9/14
Art of Living on a Damaged Planet
Vimeo of her paper here
'What people have been doing on this planet has in fact changed the planet for ever and for everyone - anthropogenic processes'

'Think we must' - Virginia Woolf Three Guineas
We need to think the consequences of the worlding we are in
The Science of SF: String Figures/ Science Fact/ Science Fiction/ Speculative Fabulation/ Speculative Feminism/ So Far

As you know from your own experience, and there are facts that prove it, the
daughters of educated men have always done their thinking from
hand to mouth; not under green lamps at study tables in the cloisters
of secluded colleges. They have thought while they stirred the
pot, while they rocked the cradle. It was thus that they won us (59)
the right to our brand-new sixpence. It falls to us now to go on
thinking; how are we to spend that sixpence? Think we must. Let
us think in offices; in omnibuses; while we are standing in the
crowd watching Coronations and Lord Mayor’s Shows; let us
think as we pass the Cenotaph; and in Whitehall; in the gallery of
the House of Commons; in the Law Courts; let us think at baptisms
and marriages and funerals. Let us never cease from thinking—
what is this ‘civilization’ in which we find ourselves? What
are these ceremonies and why should we take part in them? What
are these professions and why should we make money out of
them? Where in short is it leading us, the procession of the sons
of educated men?   Virginia Woolf Three Guineas (Hogarth Press, 1938) p. 59-60
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91tg/chapter2.html


Inspired by Marilyn Strathern
It matters what stories tell stories
It matters what thoughts think thoughts
It matters what worlds world worlds

Situated Knowledges The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective1988
Feminist Studies Vol.14 No.3 (575 -599)

Marilyn Strathern
social anthropologist | writer |

Journal of ethnographic theory HAU