Donna Haraway (1944 - )

“There is nothing about being ‘female’ that naturally binds women. There is

not even such a state as ‘being’ female, itself a highly complex

category constructed in contested sexual scientific discourses & other

social practices.” – A Cyborg Manifesto

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Common Catholic symbol: image of the Crucifix (a cross with the body of Christ attached)

Passional Christi und Antichristi, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, from Luther's 1521 Passionary of the Christ and Antichrist. The Pope as the Antichrist, signing and selling indulgences.

Universties de Paris

Yale University

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“Well, who is to say that diversity is to produce equality, what a strange illusion. What a remarkable idea. When I said that diversity is the name of the

game of capital accumulation these days, I mean that as a kind of low-key descriptive statement. It is because of certain technoscientific endeavors

which complicate the issues of diversity and political identity.” - Haraway, Donna J. Birth of the Kennel. European Graduate School. Lecture by Donna Haraway. August 2000

“I want this book to be responsible to primatologists,

to historians of science, to cultural theorists, to the broad left, anti-racist, anti-colonial, and women’s movements, to

animals, and to lovers of serious stories. Primates

existing at the boundaries of so many hopes and interests are wonderful subjects with whom to explore the permeability of

walls, the reconstitution of borders, the distaste for endless socially enforced

dualisms” – Donna Haraway, Primate Visions.

“The moral is simple: only partial perspective promises objective vision. All Western cultural narratives about

objectivity are allegories of the ideologies governing the relations of what we call mind & body, distance & responsibility.

Feminist objectivity is about limited location & situated knowledge, not about transcendence & splitting of subject & object. It allows us to become answerable for what we learn

how to see. – Haraway, Situated Knowledges, p. 583.

“A splitting of senses, a confusion of voice & sight, rather than clear & distinct ideas, becomes the metaphor for the

ground of the rational. We seek not the knowledges ruled by pallogocentrism (nostalgia for the presence of the one true Word) & disembodied vision. We seek those ruled by partial

sight & limited voice – not partiality for its own sake but, rather, for the sake of the connections & unexpected

openings situated knowledges make possible.” – Donna Haraway,

Situated Knowledges p. 590.

“An ironic dream of a common language for women in the integrated circuit” – Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto, p. 291.

“This chapter is an argument for pleasure in the confusion of

boundaries & for responsibility in their construction. It is also an effort to contribute to socialist-feminist culture & theory in a postmodernist, non-naturalist

mode & in the utopian tradition of imagining a world without

gender, which is perhaps a world without genesis, but maybe also

a world without end.” – Donna

Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto, p. 292.

“The cyborg is a creature in a post-gender world. It has no truck with bisexuality, pre-oedipal symbiosis, unalienated labour, or other

seductions to organic wholeness through a final appropriation of all the powers of the pasts into a higher unity. In a sense, the cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense – a ‘final’ irony since the cyborg is the awful apocalyptic telos of the ‘Wests’s’ escalating dominations

of abstract individuation, an ultimate self untied at last from all dependency, a man in space. – Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto, p. 292.

RepresentationBourgeois novel, realismOrganismDepth, integrityHeatBiology as clinical practicePhysiologySmall groupPerfectionEugenicsDecadence, Magic MountainHygieneMicrobiology, tuberculosisOrganic division of labourFunctional specializationReproductionOrganic: sex role specializationBiological determinismCommunity ecologyRacial chain of being

SimulationScience fiction, postmodernismBiotic componentSurface, boundaryNoiseBiology as inscriptionCommunications engineeringSubsystemOptimizationPopulation controlObsolescence, Future ShockStress managementImmunology, AIDSErgonomics/cybernetics of labourModular constructionReplicationOptimal genetic strategiesEvolutionary inertia, constraintsEcosystemNeo-imperialism, United Nations humanism

Old Hierarchal Dominations

Informatics of Domination

Scientific Management in home/factoryFamily wagePublic/privateNature/cultureCooperationFreudSexLabourMindSecond World WarWhite capitalist patriarchy

Global factory/electronic cottageComparable worthCyborg citizenshipFields of differenceCommunications enhancementLacanGenetic EngineeringRoboticsArtificial intelligenceStar WarsInformatics of domination

“I argue for a politics rooted in claims about fundamental changes in the nature of class, race, and gender in an emerging system of world order analogous in its novelty and scope to that created by industrial capitalism”- Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto, p. 300.

“Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writing is about the power to survive, not on the basis of original innocence, but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the world that marked them as other.”- Donna Haraway, A Cyborg

Manifesto, p 311.