Donna Haraway talking about how Koko the gorilla came to stand for the “Universal Man.” Link below.
So, Musk is rapping about a dead Gorilla now. But Donna Haraway, author of the feminist essay “The Cyborg Manifesto” and the recent book detailing kinship in and at the end of the “Anthropocene” called Staying with the Trouble, had something to say much earlier about the Gorilla and our relationship to them.
Musk’s girlfriend, the artist Grimes (who calls herself a cyborg and whose new album will be called Miss_Anthropocene), seems to be a fan willing to embody Haraway‘s recent subject(s):
“People don’t care about it [climate change], because we’re being guilted,” Grimes told the publication. “I see the polar bear and want to kill myself. No one wants to look at it, you know? I want to make a reason to look at it. I want to make it beautiful.” And how does she plan to make it “beautiful?” Well, apparently the album visuals will include “pro-apocalypse PSAs” and a Renaissance-esque portrait of herself eating endangered animals. [Via]
All signs point to string figures and “the art of living on a damaged planet” (emphasis mine).