Donna Haraway Quotes on Nature
Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto (1985) and the later Companion Species Manifesto (2003) and Staying with the Trouble (2016) develop one of the most influential contemporary philosophies of nature. The cyborg figure dissolves the inherited distinctions between human and animal, organism and machine, physical and non-physical, supplying a feminist political ontology suited to the late-twentieth-century technoscientific situation. The companion-species and multispecies frameworks of the later books extend the analysis to the entanglements of human beings with the dogs, microbes, plants, and machines through which any actual human life is constituted, and the situated knowledges essay (1988) gives Haraway's distinctive feminist objectivity its most influential statement: knowledge is always from somewhere, and the disciplined accountability of partial perspectives is the proper alternative to the impossible god-trick of disembodied vision.
Quotes
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Attributed to Donna Haraway:
“We are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism.”
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Attributed to Donna Haraway:
“Nothing comes without its world.”
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Attributed to Donna Haraway:
“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. -
“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.