"In a sense, a cyborg has no origin……" — Donna J. Haraway
"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 from all dependency, a man in space."
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Donna J. Haraway
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24 Quotes by Donna J. Haraway
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Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently…
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The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must…
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From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to…
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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,…
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We have all been injured, profoundly. We require regeneration, not rebirth, and the possibilities for our reconstitution include the utopian…
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The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning…
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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…
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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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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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