1. An answer to one of the following questions (this should be at least a paragraph in length):
What was most interesting about the assigned reading/viewing for today? Why?
I enjoyed this reading very much and the understanding I took from Haraway’s writing was that we can start to counteract our unsustainable life practices by embracing this worlds biodiversity in the same way we embrace our kin. That we should consider ourselves as an equal part of this world instead of placing ourselves above the rest.
2. A quote from the text that you found interesting or significant and would like to talk about and commentary on this quote or a question about the quote (this section should be at least a paragraph in length and properly introduced and cited in order to receive credit).
Early in the text, Haraway says “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.”. For me, this was a great introduction to the ideas of inclusive kinship shared later in the writing. By reshaping our idea of kin when she said “I think that the stretch and recomposition of kin are allowed by the fact that all earthlings are kin in the deepest sense, and it is past time to practice better care of kinds-asassemblages (not species one at a time). Kin is an assembling sort of word. All critters share a common “flesh,” laterally, semiotically, and genealogically. Ancestors turn out to be very interesting strangers; kin are unfamiliar (outside what we thought was family or gens), uncanny, haunting, active.”, the idea of familial interspecies kindness no longer seems unimaginable.
3. A discussion question to ask the class.
What actions can each of us take as individuals to treat other species, or the world as a whole, as kin?
