In this episode, Risa travels through cyborg memories, companion species, Greenham encampments, and speculative futures to unpack why Donna Haraway, is foundational - or maybe better to say mycelial - to that play space that these days we recognize as witchcraft. In Staying with the Trouble, she quotes Starhawk, “Keen and mourn For the dismembering of the world.” In her speculative fiction, Donna Haraway imagines that we sing Starhawk, to "bring into ongoing presence, through active memory, the lost life-ways so that other symbiotic and sympoietic commitments would not lose heart. Crucial to the work was not to forget the stink in the air from the burning of the witches, not to forget the murders of human and non-human beings in the great catastrophes named the Plantationocene, Anthropocene, capitalocene, to “keen and mourning for the dismembering of the world.” Moving through mourning to represencing, to the practice of vital memory…” (645)
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https://filmstreams.org/films/donna-haraway-story-telling-for-earthly-survival