Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters. Donna J. Haraway More Quotes by Donna J. Haraway More Quotes From Donna J. Haraway 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 matters which ones get made and unmade. Donna J. Haraway connectionstechnologyworld The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion Donna J. Haraway optical-illusionsrealityfiction 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 machinesrealityfiction 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 a monstrous world without gender. Donna J. Haraway rebirthdreamworld Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin? Donna J. Haraway skinsbodyends From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power. Donna J. Haraway realviewsgames Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess. Donna J. Haraway cyborgspiralsgoddess 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. Donna J. Haraway differencesselfmind Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges Donna J. Haraway feministobjectivitymean Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a way of knowing the world is kin to Romantic literature, with its discourse about organic form and function. Biology is the fiction appropriate to objects called organisms; biology fashions the facts "discovered" about organic beings. Donna J. Haraway fashionscienceknowledge The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code. Donna J. Haraway feministkindself 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 are necessary and true. Irony is about humour an serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism. Donna J. Haraway rhetorical-strategiespoliticalplay By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs. Donna J. Haraway chimeramachinescentury 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 can suggest a way out of the maze of dualisms in which we have explained our bodies and our tools to ourselves. Donna J. Haraway mazestechnologymean 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 feel for united front politics, but without the vanguard party. The main trouble with cyborgs, of course, is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, not to mention state socialism. But illegitimate offspring are often exceedingly unfaithful to their origins. Donna J. Haraway cosmosconnectionsparty 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 gardendustdream Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert. Donna J. Haraway cyborglivelymachines I’d rather be a cyborg than a goddess. Donna J. Haraway cyborggoddess Grammar is politics by other means. Donna J. Haraway grammarmean 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. Donna J. Haraway spaceselfmen
