"Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the……" — Donna J. Haraway
"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 used to apply to organisms and machines. Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert."
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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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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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In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense – a ‘final’ irony since the cyborg…
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