Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a way of knowing the world is kin to Romantic literature, with its discourse about organic… — 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 entities that are the remnants of loss and dispossession in the law. Dogs and people are abundantly present here, even as the legal fictions they are made to inhabit are exposed with acid lucidity. These are… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share
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
