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Donna J. Haraway has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ...…
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The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.
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From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant…
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Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many…
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We have all been injured, profoundly. We require regeneration, not rebirth, and the possibilities for our reconstitution include the utopian dream of…
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The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust.
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Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters.
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Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.
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Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?
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Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously.
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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…
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Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.
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The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience…
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By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism;…
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in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable…
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It was very different when the masters of science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the…
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The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby…
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I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for…
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