I found Haraway’s idea of “making kin” abrasive and potentially oppressive. Despite my initial ire toward Haraway’s piece, I found myself looking at the potential merits of the idea and I saw it was represented in all the literature we read throughout the semester. Two names that continued to appear on the periphery of class readings and discussions (Haraway’s piece for one) were Deleuze and Guattari. I read a selection from A Thousand Planteus: Capitalism and SchizophreniaI and was drawn to many of their ideas, particularly with the rhizome and how it represents an anti-hierarchy. Although my understanding of what they outlined may be superficial and flawed, the connection I made was how “making kin” can be a non-oppressive, non-hierarchical exchange while considering Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizome, which I believe influenced Haraway in addition to meshing well with her ideas.

My search process for finding articles started on OneSearch. I initially searched for articles relating to Lerner’s 10:04, using the keywords “Lerner” and “10:04”. There were a lot of reviews of the book and only one academic paper that showed up on the first page. I then looked through GoogleScholar and was able to find a few additional peer reviewed papers, however I ran into issues accessing some of them. I then found that if I searched for the journal and the author on OneSearch, I was sometimes able to access the article I couldn’t access through GoogleScholar. Unfortunately, I didn’t find anything written about 10:04 that would work for the piece I have in mind, but may still do some additional searching. It was much easier finding results related to Haraway, Ghosh, and Butler. One search I used on OneSearch and GoogleScholar was Haraway paired with one of the other authors. This produced very limited results, but gave me two pieces that will work well for what I have in mind. I also searched each author’s name with other keywords such as: chthulucene, pedagogy, kin, family, etc. The results were varied. Something invaluable I discovered while using GoogleScholar was it will search for synonyms of keywords provided. I will continue to do additional research to see if I can uncover further papers that will assist in my argument, which may include requesting some pieces I didn’t have immediate access to. There is also a chance I may tweak my initial question based on how annotating the papers goes.

Appleton, Nayantara Sheoran, and Danya Glabau. “Critical Engagements on Making Kin Not Population: An Epistolary Review Essay.” American Anthropologist, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13780.

Guerrero, Paula Barba. “Post-Apocalyptic Memory Sites: Damaged Space, Nostalgia, and Refuge in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower.” Science-Fiction Studies, vol. 48, no. 1, 2021, p. 29–45. https://doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.48.1.0029.

Haraway, Donna.  “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin.” Environmental Humanities, vol. 6, 2015.

Laurie, Timothy, and Hannah Stark. “Reconsidering Kinship: Beyond the Nuclear Family with Deleuze and Guattari.” Cultural studies review 18, no. 1 (2012): 19–39. https://doi.org/10.5130/csr.v18i1.1612.

Leitch, Vincent B., et al. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Edited by Vincent B. Leitch et al., Third edition., W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.

Miller, Jim. “Post-Apocalyptic Hoping: Octavia Butler’s Dystopian/Utopian Vision.” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 25, no. 2, 1998, pp. 336–60. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4240705.

White, Laura A. “Novel Vision: Seeing the Sunderbans through Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Hungry Tide.’” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 20, no. 3, 2013, pp. 513–31. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44087261.