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New Materialism, Donna Haraway, Compostism

  • Cross-Cultural Studies
  • 2022, 65(), pp.117-146
  • DOI : 10.21049/ccs.2022.65..117
  • Publisher : Center for Cross Culture Studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Literature
  • Received : January 11, 2022
  • Accepted : February 3, 2022
  • Published : February 28, 2022

Joo, Kee Wha 1

1건국대학교 몸문화연구소

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ABSTRACT

This paper examines the context in which Donna Haraway's 'we are compost' manifesto was conceived, how it changed our perception and understanding of the world, and why we need it now. First, I examine Haraway's concept of 'naturecultures', which deconstructs the dualism of René Descartes, in the context of New Material Feminism. Second, to scientifically and intuitively understand Haraway's ethics-onto-epistem-ology of 'we are compost' in ecological evolutionary developmental biology (EcoEvoDevo), by borrowing the concept of Lynn Margulis’s symbiogenesis, microbiome, and Vicki Hearne's animal rights, I examine the sympoietic companionship between gut microbes and humans. Third, I propose to call her new ethics-onto-epistem-ology, which criticizes posthumanism as human exceptionalism and abstract futurism, as 'compostism'.

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