Peter Kawalek: Donna Haraway’s Chthulucene – Cybernetics, Wellbeing and the Future of the Planet

Professor Peter Kawalek FCybS is Director of the Centre for Information Management at the School of Business & Economics in Loughborough University. Here he outlines Donna Haraway’s “Staying With The Trouble” as the reconceptualization of autopoiesis as sympoiesis. This is one of a number of concepts through which she calls the Anthropocene to its end and articulates the Chthulucene – a higher variety, multi-species, ecologically conducive era of diverse relationships. This is not my normal territory as Professor of Information Management but I once sat with Stafford Beer as he expounded on failures of thought, curricula and teaching, and expressed how he felt the impoverishment of thinking impoverished the world. I have reflected on that conversation several times whilst engaging with Donna Haraway’s work and felt, similar to my first reaction to Stafford’s work, a surge of excitement at the complexity and the potential. As Haraway puts it, it is important to consider what worlds world worlds. Look out for the variety expressed in kin, plantations and string figures as I grapple with her latest work.

Peter also Hehas additional visiting positions at Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Ireland, and Deusto Business School, Basque Country. Previously of Manchester Business School, Warwick Business School and School of Computer Science at Manchester. He also has wide experience working with organizations including Siemens AG., SAP, IBM, Office an Taoiseach (Prime Minister) in Dublin, the Department of Communities and Local Government (London), City Council, Salford City Council, Lancashire Constabulary, Greater Manchester Police. Peter has held and managed over £2m in research grants from government and research councils. What Peter hopes to be known for is actual contribution – that maybe there is something to show on the ground for his various ideas and projects.

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