Man and Society in the Age of Chthulucene: The View of D. Haraway
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5148-2024-3-70-79
Abstract
Aim. To carry out a reflection on the project of human modification using the example of the works of the famous theorist D. Haraway.
Methodology. The methodology of the research is the socio-philosophical analysis, general scientific methods of theoretical knowledge, methods of system analysis, comparison, generalization.
Results. The essence of the “compost community” is analyzed. The article substantiates the anti-philosophical and anti-scientific basis of Haraway’s ideas regarding the nature of the future man, his symbiont species, and determines the futility of their application as social practices.
Research implications. It is shown that the ontology of Haraway’s “compost” is a radical but utopian project for the transformation of man and society, the consequence of which is deanthropologization.
Keywords
future,
Donna Haraway,
animals,
society,
“Staying with the Turmoil”,
project,
kindred,
body,
Chthulucene,
human
About the Author
P. I. Vermishova
Russian University of Transport (MIIT)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Polina I. Vermishova – Cand. Sci. (Philosophy), Assoc. Prof., Department of Philosophy, Sociology and History,
9, bld. 9, Obraztsova str., Moscow 127994.
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