Boundaries Quote by Donna J. Haraway Download Open image “The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion” — Donna J. Haraway ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boundaries Fiction Illusion Optical illusions Reality Science Science fiction Social
My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
I'm a science-fiction fan. All science fiction ends up being reality. — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there. — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry. — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. — J. G. Ballard 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
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
Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert. — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
God's Word does provide life lessons to teach us how to live. And it gives us beautiful poetry that gives voice to our human… — Jennifer Rothschild Copy Share Image
While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I never go anywhere or do anything that transports me outside the boundaries of my mind. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
As a kid, in the Runaways, I would see the interviewers start to ask about our personal lives and what we did — and… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Let us not subside into a single mandatory way of thinking or feeling, immersed by a spirit of self-gratification. But let’s dig into the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have… — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image