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Donna Haraway Quotes on Nature

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. This page collects quotes attributed to Donna Haraway on the topic of nature, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Donna Haraway:

    “We are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism.”

  • Attributed to Donna Haraway:

    “Nothing comes without its world.”

  • Attributed to Donna Haraway:

    “Beings do not preexist their relatings.”

  • “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.
  • “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.
  • “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.