Sympoiesis in Turbulent Times: Reading/Literacy in the Chthulucene

• Main Author: Conway, Jessica
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Education; Reading; Literature; Speculative fiction; Intercultural communication; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-9ncr-xz59

Donna Haraway’s Chthulucene suggests a world in which humans and non-humans are inextricably entangled, a world in which global ecological devastation demands new ways of relating across disciplines and across differences, a world in which strategic coalitions across disciplines—fluid transdisciplinary coalitions—are badly needed. Haraway suggests sympoiesis, or making-with, as a move toward response-ability. In this project, I embrace the rich fabric of Narrative Inquiry in English Education and knit a diffractive, transdisciplinary reading of current debates in reading/literacy studies, composing speculative fiction as I compose my own approaches to teaching and research and figure a sympoietic pedagogy.