Donna Haraway Quotes
Donna Haraway is an American philosopher of science, biologist, and feminist theorist who has been one of the most influential voices in late-twentieth and twenty-first century science and technology studies. Her A Cyborg Manifesto rejected the boundaries between human, animal, and machine and offered the cyborg as an ironic figure for politics in a high-tech age, while her essay Situated Knowledges defended a feminist objectivity rooted in partial perspective rather than the view from nowhere. The quotes below are attributed to Donna Haraway, organized by topic.
Donna Haraway on Knowledge
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“Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously.”
A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women : The Reinvention of Nature (1991), pp.149-181. -
“All of reality in late capitalist culture lusts to become an image for its own security.”
Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936" in Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory (1994), p. 72
Donna Haraway on Life
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“Stay with the trouble.”
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“Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade.”
A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women : The Reinvention of Nature (1991), pp.149-181.
Donna Haraway on Mind
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“I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.”
A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women : The Reinvention of Nature (1991), pp.149-181.
Donna Haraway on Nature
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Attributed to Donna Haraway:
“We are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism.”
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“Nothing comes without its world.”
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“Beings do not preexist their relatings.”
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“A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women : The Reinvention of Nature (1991), pp.149-181.”
Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously. -
“A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women : The Reinvention of Nature (1991), pp.149-181.”
Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade. -
“A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women : The Reinvention of Nature (1991), pp.149-181.”
Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.
Donna Haraway on Politics
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“Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936" in Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory (1994), p. 72”
All of reality in late capitalist culture lusts to become an image for its own security.