====== Haraway Circle 11  ======
 
**Symbiogenesis**  
//A Reading Circle held online on Sunday 28.11.2021 > 2 PM (CEST) // 


**Introductory text: **   
Friend and antagonist of Donna Haraway, the biologist and evolutionary theorist Lynn Margulis proposed the term 'symbiogenesis' to emphasize the importance of understanding the emergence of life-forms as always already richly embedded, genetic in a context of other life. In other words, there are extensive and indistinct co-dependencies in all life forms such that they can not be meaningfully understood as abstract species or individual beings. In this circle we will take a deep dive into Margulis' work and thinking, especially Haraway's responses to the concepts of symbiogenesis and the 'Gaia Hypothesis' she developed with chemist and cybernetician James Lovelock.  

Preparatory readings:    
[[https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/discover-interview-lynn-margulis-says-shes-not-controversial-shes-right|Lynn Margulis Interview]]
[[https://www.pnas.org/content/112/33/10270|Symbiogenesis: Beyond the endosymbiosis theory? Duur K. Aanena & Paul Eggleton]]
[[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022519317303612|Endosymbiosis and its implications for evolutionary theory - Maureen A. O’Malley]]


We read during the circle: [[https://adanewmedia.org/2013/11/issue3-haraway/|SF: Science Fiction, Speculative Fabulation, String Figures, So Far]]

{{ :pres_11.pdf |Baruch's Slides}}