“It Calls [Me] from the Future to become. It Calls [Me] from the Future to Come Back”. Contributions of Therolinguistics to Continue with the Problem

Authors

  • Camila Arce Torre Escuela de Letras, FFyH, UNC

Keywords:

SF, therolinguistics, staying with the trouble, Úrsula k. Le Guin, theoretical fiction

Abstract

We will investigate the proposal of therosciences, understanding them as an implementation of the SF figure that Donna Haraway postulates in her book Staying with the trouble, making kin in the Chthulucene (2019), as a key contribution to the possible crossover between the natural sciences and the humanities. We start from the diagnosis that we live on a damaged earth and that we must generate practices that allow us to staying with the trouble. With this objective we will read the story “The author of the acacia seeds and other extracts from the Magazine of the Association of Terolinguistics” by Úrsula K. Le Guin and we will read how the philosopher Vinciane Despret uses the discipline of therolinguistics in Autobiography of an octopus and other stories of anticipation (2022), in order to delve deeper into the potential of SF as a speculative narrative that puts modern scientific practices in tension. In these texts we find the place occupied by animals and nature dislocated, since they are no longer seen as passive objects, but instead they acquire the status of authors of sympoietic artistic practices, helping us to think about other worlds and other possible futures from the Chthulucene.

References

Despret, V. (2022). Autobiografía de un pulpo y otros relatos de anticipación. Consonni.

Haraway, D. (2019). Seguir con el problema. Generar parentesco en el Chthuluceno. Consonni.

Milone, G.; Maccioni, F. y Santucci, S. (Eds). (2021). Imaginar-hacer. Ficciones teóricas para las literaturas y las artes contemporáneas. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades.

Le Guin, U. K. (2020). La teoría de la ficción como bolsa transportadora. Cuadernos materialistas, 5.

Le Guin, U. K. (1987). La autora de las semillas de acacia y otros extractos de la Revista de la Asociación de Terolingüística. En U. K. Le Guin, La rosa de los vientos. Edhasa.

Published

2024-07-05

Issue

Section

La literatura y las cosas

How to Cite

“It Calls [Me] from the Future to become. It Calls [Me] from the Future to Come Back”. Contributions of Therolinguistics to Continue with the Problem. (2024). Nota Al Margen, 2(3), 142-157. https://revistas.psi.unc.edu.ar/index.php/notalmargen/article/view/44778