In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense – a ‘final’ irony since the cyborg is also the awful apocalyptic telos of the ‘West’s’ escalating dominations of abstract individuation, an ultimate self untied at last… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
“Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour and serious play. It is also a… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
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… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
We have all been injured, profoundly. We require regeneration, not rebirth, and the possibilities for our reconstitution include the utopian dream of the hope… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers, and other… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters. — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust. — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
“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… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
Cyborgs are not reverent; they do not re-member the cosmos. They are wary of holism, but needy for connection- they seem to have a… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many other distinctions… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess. — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
It is not just that science and technology are possible means of great human satisfaction, as well as a matrix of complex dominations. Cyborg… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
