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
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
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
