All Donna J. Haraway Quotes
- Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a… All
- The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code. Code
- From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that… Actors
- 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 that… Ambiguous
- We have all been injured, profoundly. We require regeneration, not rebirth, and the possibilities for our reconstitution include the utopian dream of the hope for… All
- The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust. Cannot Dream
- Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters. Double
- Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert. Disturbingly
- Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin? Beings
- Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously. Always Seemed
- 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… Connections
- Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess. Both
- In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense – a ‘final’ irony since the cyborg is also the awful apocalyptic… Abstract
- The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion Boundaries
- Myth and tool mutually constitute each other. Constitute
- 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 natural… Capitalism
- 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… All
- I’d rather be a Cyborg than a Goddess Cyborg
- It is not just that science and technology are possible means of great human satisfaction, as well as a matrix of complex dominations. Cyborg imagery… Bodies
- 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… Abundantly