“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

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.