Haraway, Donna ‘s replacement term for Maturana and Varela’s concept of autopoiesis, which she objects to on the grounds that no ‘thing’ makes itself. It is worth noting that this is something of a misreading of Maturana and Varela, since they do not claim that the autopoietic machine, as they call it, produces itself. It would be more accurate to say that autopoiesis refers to a process of self-reproduction. Nonetheless, as Haraway defines it in Staying with Trouble (2016), adapting the work of Beth Dempster who coined the phrase, sympoeisis refers to a process of ‘making with’---i.e. it does not refer to a self that makes itself, but rather a form of self-making that can only happen collectively and collaboratively.